port blocks

foodog@uswest.net foodog@uswest.net
Thu, 17 Aug 2000 21:13:27 -0700


Joel, I know I'm a couple of days behind but...  If you
download portsentry from http://www.psionic.com the file
portsentry.conf has 3 blocks of port numbers listed for
(paraphrasing) lax, normal and paranoid. HTH
Steve

> Joel Dudley wrote:
> 
> OK, I was trying to get an idea of standard port blocks
> for security reasons to put in place on a router.  I know
> that there is no such thing as a standard set of port
> blocks, however, there surely must be a few port
> blocks that you security gnomes out there keep fresh in
> your memory as standard procedure.  I will leave the can
> of Mountain Dew in front of me unopened as a sacrafice for
> this arcane knowledge. Thanks.
> 
> - Joel
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power
> of reason, the
> story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains
> of ignorance; he is
> about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself
> over the final rock,
> he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been
> sitting there for
> centuries."
> 
> - Dr. Robert Jastrow
>         Founder of NASA"s Goddard Institute for space
> studies
> 
> 

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