Blame it all on the firewall!

[Matt Luettgen]

I dont know if anyone actually made an attempt to connect or not, the
way my room-mate had it setup it only kept logs for 24 hours so even if
someone did connect and infect us I wouldnt know about it.  It's running
off of the hard drive so saving settings isnt an issue.  I'm tempted to
go with one of the firewalls on floppy or firewalls on CD to prevent
anyone from changing our rules

On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 09:41:30 -0600
Brian Kelsay <bkelsay at comcast.net> wrote:

> So Smoothwall didn't block them out of the box?   Can't you just add
> them to your iptables?  Are you running Smoothwall off the CD?  If so
> there should be a way for it to save its config files to a floppy or
> something.   I haven't gotten around to changing my firewall over to
> something newer yet because my Freesco just keeps on humming along.  I
> did have to install a newer PC and move the NICs when the power supply
> finally died on my P-60. I've made it through Code Red and all the
> other worms with only a slow down when they were at their worst.
> Brian
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt Luettgen" <
> 
> > I was doing some port forwarding last night with smoothwall and when
> > I was done I had someone nmap me from the outside world, everything
> > looked normal but two ports which concern me because of the windows
> > boxes on the network.
> >
> > 31337/tcp  filtered    Elite
> > 54320/tcp  filtered    bo2k
> >
> > Any ideas of why Smoothwall wouldnt be blocking these?
> >
> 
> 
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