Re: portsentry(1) and ipv6?

2020-09-13 Thread Dan Ritter
Fabrice Bauzac wrote: > Hello, > > 12 sept. 2020 14:09:14 Dan Ritter : > > > John Conover wrote: > >> > >> Does portsentry(1) make any sense in systems with ipv6 connectivity? > >> > > Yes and no. If you want to know that machines are scanni

Re: portsentry(1) and ipv6?

2020-09-12 Thread Fabrice Bauzac
Hello, 12 sept. 2020 14:09:14 Dan Ritter : > John Conover wrote: >> >> Does portsentry(1) make any sense in systems with ipv6 connectivity? >> > Yes and no. If you want to know that machines are scanning > ports, yes. If you want to effectively block IPs, no. Why wo

Re: portsentry(1) and ipv6?

2020-09-12 Thread Dan Ritter
John Conover wrote: > > Does portsentry(1) make any sense in systems with ipv6 connectivity? > Yes and no. If you want to know that machines are scanning ports, yes. If you want to effectively block IPs, no. You can, of course, block well known IPv6 addresses -- I block Google's

portsentry(1) and ipv6?

2020-09-12 Thread John Conover
Does portsentry(1) make any sense in systems with ipv6 connectivity? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

Re: portsentry and courier: RPC error

2005-12-16 Thread Moritz Naumann
> Vadim > Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:27:57 -0700 > I am running portsentry and courier, and I am getting this error in my syslog: > > imapd-ssl: pmap_getmaps rpc problem: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = > Connection reset > by peer > > If I stop either of the service

Re: portsentry only blocking once - need to restart

2005-05-07 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
dly hosts blocked from time to time, and you shouldn't have to restart the daemon to unblock them; just add them to the permanent ignore list and remove the offending entry in iptables while portsentry continues to run, which is pretty much the default behavior you're seeing. You could pr

portsentry only blocking once - need to restart

2005-05-07 Thread Jochen Kaechelin
I have the following problem: Wenn I do a nmap to a portsentry protected host I will be blocked after 3 scans with the following command: KILL_RUN_CMD="/sbin/iptables -I INPUT -s $TARGET$ -j DROP" When I flush iptables (iptables -F) and try to nmap the host again portsentry does no

Portsentry Question

2005-01-06 Thread "Sergio Cuéllar"
Hi, I really not sure whats happening with portsentry, before I start the daemon I use nmap to see the open ports: And I get only: 22/tcp open ssh 25/tcp open smtp 80/tcp open http 111/tcp open rpcbind Then i use nestat too, and I get something like this: tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:111

Portsentry Question

2004-12-30 Thread "Sergio Cuéllar"
Hi, I really not sure whats happening with portsentry, before I start the daemon I use nmap to see the open ports: And I get only: 22/tcp open ssh 25/tcp open smtp 80/tcp open http 111/tcp open rpcbind Then i use nestat too, and I get something like this: tcp0 0 0.0.0.0

portsentry and courier: RPC error

2004-10-13 Thread Vadim
I am running portsentry and courier, and I am getting this error in my syslog: imapd-ssl: pmap_getmaps rpc problem: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection reset by peer If I stop either of the services, error stops. There is no mentioning of port 530 (courier rpc) in portsetry.conf. How

portsentry and netfilter

2004-02-18 Thread sarunas
Hello, During the last couple of weeks portsentry is producing a lot of alerts on connects to ports 540 and 635: Feb 17 10:04:11 portsentry[949]: attackalert: Connect from host: / to TCP port: 635 Feb 17 10:04:11 portsentry[949]: attackalert: Host has been blocked via wrappers with

portsentry and netfilter

2004-02-17 Thread Sarunas
Hello, During the last couple of weeks portsentry is producing a lot of alerts on connects to ports 540 and 635: Feb 17 10:04:11 portsentry[949]: attackalert: Connect from host: / to TCP port: 635 Feb 17 10:04:11 portsentry[949]: attackalert: Host has been blocked via wrappers with

Re: portsentry: port 162 attack

2002-03-12 Thread Jeff
Thomas Shemanske, 2002-Mar-11 16:46 -0500: > I have a sid system and installed portsentry on it (and several other > woody machines in the department). > > I left it in log-only mode, but immediately after starting it up, I > discovered that a machine of a colleague of mine is

portsentry: port 162 attack

2002-03-11 Thread Thomas Shemanske
I have a sid system and installed portsentry on it (and several other woody machines in the department). I left it in log-only mode, but immediately after starting it up, I discovered that a machine of a colleague of mine is banging away (every three minutes exactly) on port 162 (snmp-trap) on

SOLVED! Re: warning message from portsentry

2001-12-22 Thread rick
wrote: > > >>What does this warning mean and what is causing it? > > >> > > >>> Dec 20 12:02:10 tc portsentry[540]: attackalert: Possible stealth > > >>> scan from unknown host to TCP port: 111 (accept failed) > > >> > >

Re: warning message from portsentry

2001-12-21 Thread rick
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 07:44:51PM +, Pollywog wrote: > On 2001.12.20 19:33 Pollywog wrote: > >On 2001.12.20 19:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>What does this warning mean and what is causing it? > >> > >>> Dec 20 12:02:10 tc portsentry[540]: attack

Re: warning message from portsentry

2001-12-20 Thread Pollywog
On 2001.12.20 19:33 Pollywog wrote: On 2001.12.20 19:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does this warning mean and what is causing it? > Dec 20 12:02:10 tc portsentry[540]: attackalert: Possible stealth scan > from unknown host to TCP port: 111 (accept failed) I get it when I run a 2.4

Re: warning message from portsentry

2001-12-20 Thread Pollywog
On 2001.12.20 19:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does this warning mean and what is causing it? > Dec 20 12:02:10 tc portsentry[540]: attackalert: Possible stealth scan > from unknown host to TCP port: 111 (accept failed) I get it when I run a 2.4 kernel but not when I run a 2.2 kerne

warning message from portsentry

2001-12-20 Thread rick
What does this warning mean and what is causing it? > Dec 20 12:02:10 tc portsentry[540]: attackalert: Possible stealth scan > from unknown host to TCP port: 111 (accept failed) I get it when I run a 2.4 kernel but not when I run a 2.2 kernel so I believe it's something internal t

Re: portsentry

2001-07-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010718 05:28]: > > locutus:~# dpkg -l|grep snort > ii snort 1.7-9 Flexible NIDS (Network Intrusion Detection S > locutus:~# dpkg -l|grep portsentry > ii portsentry 1.0-2 Portscan detection daemon > locutus:~# Fo

Re: portsentry

2001-07-18 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Sam Varghese wrote: >This is a bit off-topic. Yesterday I read a piece >at the following URL: > >http://www.linux.ie/articles/portsentryandsnortcompared.php > >comparing portsentry and snort. Next on their list is to compare apples and oranges... >I

Re: portsentry

2001-07-18 Thread Adam Shand
> It is the first time I have read anything negative about portsentry. while a lot of what the author is saying is true portsentry and snort are two quite different things. really the only thing they have in common is that they are designed to improve the security of your network/ser

portsentry

2001-07-18 Thread Sam Varghese
This is a bit off-topic. Yesterday I read a piece at the following URL: http://www.linux.ie/articles/portsentryandsnortcompared.php comparing portsentry and snort. It is the first time I have read anything negative about portsentry. Any comments? Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

portsentry + kernel 2.4.x

2001-06-15 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
This is the same message I sent to another mailing list, I am really frustrated. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:31:25 -0700 (PDT) Hi All, I am having a problem with portsentry on kernel 2.4.5 machines. When using kernel 2.2.19 on the same machine, there is no

portsentry install problems

2001-04-18 Thread Tristan
I am using unstable, and when trying to install portsentry and I do not get any errors, but when checking /etc/portsentry, the directory is completely empty, is this suppose to be like this? Another problem I have is when installing logcheck, debconf gives an error: Working, please wait