you might want to add up -u in the netstat command to see udp's open ports

On Tuesday 18 February 2003 14:52, Ian C. Sison wrote:
> On 18 Feb 2003, Marvin Pascual wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 16:10, Allen Umlas wrote:
> > > Fellow Pluggers,
> > >          I encountered twice been hacked by someone outside my network,
> > > What port usually crakers entered to system? what are thing usually
> > > things that hackers do? I  used ipchains as my firewall but it useless.
> > > How can i check my server and block those ports that are common to
> > > hackers... I hope i can gain more answers here.
> >
> > Ian Sison gave me this command to check the open ports.
> >
> > # chkconfig --list
> >
> > All "on" status are the running ports/services.  You need to set the
> > unnecessary and you don't need ports/services to "off"
> >
> > To check the running ports/services on runlevel 3:
> >
> > # chkconfig --list | grep 3:on
>
> Well.. not exactly open ports, but programs that run on startup.  These
> may include non-daemon programs like 'rawdevices' or 'kudzu' or 'keytable'
> some of which to me are superflous programs.  Redhat installs a lot of
> these programs to startup by default, and the best rule is to strip it
> down to the basic set of three (listed below) and one by one enable ONLY
> the ones that you will be needing for your service.
>
>
> In general all i keep running after a distro install is:
>
> 1. ssh
> 2. crond
> 3. syslogd
>
> which ends up with a system with only port 22 open.  I could further limit
> that open port via an iptables input filter to accept connections from
> only one ip.
>
> To know what programs are running / listening for IP port connections, i
> do any one of the following:
>
> netstat -nap | grep LISTEN
> socklist
> nmap
>
> I'd suggest also some other programs such as
>
> nessus (from another machine)
> chkrootkit
>
> which are necessary if you want to see if there are trojans listening on
> other ports.
>
> Ian
>
>
>
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