Re: Security Setup: how to respond to a portscan (This is long!)

1999-10-04 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: You are right. I am using WDM. BTW, where is this port 1024 specified for WDM ? Just curious. using a bind(2) call in the program source code. []s, Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP

Re: Security Setup: how to respond to a portscan (This is long!)

1999-10-04 Thread Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 05:12:15PM -0500, Stephen R. Gore wrote: BTW, where is this port 1024 specified for WDM ? Just curious. I don't even know if it IS specified. I got the info like this: Daemons that run stand-alone do not need a file like /etc/inetd.conf to specify on which port

Re: Security Setup: how to respond to a portscan (This is long!)

1999-10-04 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then there was the issue with ndbm.h not getting found. It was located in /usr/include/db1 but I had to explicitly specify that dir with --site-includes, which I thought was a bit strange. That is because the glibc maintainers have decide to move to db2

Security Setup: how to respond to a portscan (This is long!)

1999-10-03 Thread Salman Ahmed
First off, my apologies if this email is considered off-topic. The reason I am posting to this list about this subject is because I have received excellent help and support in the past from other debian users. Just yesterday I noticed in one of my log files a number of connection attempts to my

Re: Security Setup: how to respond to a portscan (This is long!)

1999-10-03 Thread Salman Ahmed
Jan == Jan Vroonhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jan What struggle? XEmacs should compile on a typical Debian system, Jan just using What I meant by that was that I didn't have all the dev libraries installed so, after installing a couple and trying make it would later bomb on some dev

Re: Security Setup: how to respond to a portscan (This is long!)

1999-10-03 Thread Salman Ahmed
Stephen == Stephen R Gore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stephen On my system wdm runs on port 1024. I don't know if you are Stephen running wdm, but I would suspect that xdm and gdm use the same Stephen port. YMMV. You are right. I am using WDM. BTW, where is this port 1024 specified

Re: Security Setup: how to respond to a portscan (This is long!)

1999-10-03 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Salman Ahmed wrote: Stephen == Stephen R Gore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stephen On my system wdm runs on port 1024. I don't know if you are Stephen running wdm, but I would suspect that xdm and gdm use the same Stephen port. YMMV. You are right. I am using WDM. BTW, where is