[lug] port scanners

Sean Reifschneider jafo at tummy.com
Thu Sep 14 19:07:10 MDT 2000


On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 04:33:22PM -0600, JEFF PFOHL wrote:
>Does anyone know of a port scanner which I can use to test my new
>install of PORTSENTRY?? This is on my RH6.1 linux machine and the site

Telnet?  Try doing a telnet to a port that should be closed, and see if
it does the right thing.  Realize that portsentry only works if you allow
that port in at the packet filtering level.

Sean
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