On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 22:21 +0200, paul van der meij wrote: > I was misled by an internet suggestion that nmap was a good tool to > check iptables configuration, but that is not true. Depends on how you're using it... It's commonly used on one computer to probe another computer. If you try to run it on the same machine that you want to probe, that might give you some peculiar results. > iptables -L gives the correct information nmap tells you what it finds, iptables -L tells you how it's configured. It's easy enough to have conflicting iptables rules, or additional rules that modify prior ones. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
