You are correct...
I have DNS running on my STN box.
The point was "ShieldUP" didn't report port 53 as "open"...
Regardless, I'm very happy with STN and plan on continuing its employment!
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-----Original Message-----
From: Krister Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 6:01 AM
To: john burton; ShareTheNet Mailing List
Subject: [ShareTheNet] SV: [ShareTheNet] STN passes ShieldUP attack!
> Please note. I am in no way slamming STN!
>
> The results returned by Gibson are not altogether accurate.
>
> I ran the same report and found that port 25 (smtp) and 80 (http) were
> open.. Well, I knew that because I'd set up my STN box that way.
>
> HOWEVER...
>
> In running nmap against the same machine...
>
> [root@mail /root]# nmap -sS -O -v jburton.telepath.com
>
> Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor ([EMAIL PROTECTED], www.insecure.org/nmap/)
> Host jburton.telepath.com (216.14.25.10) appears to be up ... good.
> Initiating SYN half-open stealth scan against jburton.telepath.com
> (216.14.25.10
> )
> Adding TCP port 53 (state Open).
> The SYN scan took 4 seconds to scan 1483 ports.
> For OSScan assuming that port 53 is open and port 42326 is closed and
> neither ar
> e firewalled
> Interesting ports on jburton.telepath.com (216.14.25.10):
> Port State Protocol Service
> 25 filtered tcp smtp
> 53 open tcp domain
> 80 filtered tcp http
This is propably because you have the firewall setup as a DNS server... port
53 is used by the DNS.
/Bell
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