Controlling ports used by natd

Jacques A. Vidrine nectar at FreeBSD.org
Fri Dec 12 19:36:46 PST 2003


On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:20:04PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
> It'd be nice to restrict which ports the OS
> allowed apps to use, not only so that they don't get blocked by a firewall
> but so that a worm that's gotten into the system is detected. (You could set
> off an alarm if it tried to bind a "forbidden" port.)

Er, that's the purpose of PortSentry, I believe, which I mentioned
earlier :-)
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Jacques Vidrine   NTT/Verio SME      FreeBSD UNIX       Heimdal
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