On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:15:42PM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > Hi > > I would like to know if iptables is the correct tool to stop people from > retriving data, such as what "NAME" of services I run (e.g vsFTPd) and > other things like (Uptime 90.302 days (since Wed Jan 12 03:08:12 2005)) etc > > And if so, how would you go about stoping the querys etc. > > Does anyone know what service nmap talks to, to determine how long the > box has been up and running for. > Just something I was thinking, kind regards just a stab in the dark, but what does: sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps have to say? -j -- "Janet: Hi. Cookie? Stewie: Well, it's Stewie, but... you can call me "cookie" if you like. Yes, I also answer to "Artemis," "Agent Buckwald" and "Snake." Yes, I rather like "Snake." Snake." --Family Guy