[NTLUG:Discuss] portsentry

[Christopher Browne]

On Wed, 02 Feb 2000 04:45:37 PST, the world broke into rejoicing as
David Stokes <david_stokes at yahoo.com>  said:
> Portsentry works as advertised.  For those of you who just said
> WTHIT (What the heck is it), Portsentry watches your TCP/IP connection
> and will use IPCHAINS to block access to the system when someone does
> something like a port scan.  
> 
> Be careful of testing your own system after installing portsentry as
> there is anecdotal evidence of people locking themselfs out. :-0

Just make sure you don't install portsentry on machines to which you do
not have console access...
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