On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 03:21:13PM -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > On Wednesday 08 October 2003 03:11 pm, Staven Bruce wrote: > > I have a RedHat 8.0 box running Apache and Mailman. I am trying to make > > sure it is locked down. When I run a port scan with nmap, I find the > > following TCP ports open: > > > > 25 -- Mail > > 80 -- WWW > > 111 -- SUN RPC > > 443 -- SSL > > 515 -- spooler > > 6000 -- X Windows > > 32768 -- Filenet > > > > Now, I know I need 80 and 25 open, but can't I just close the rest? How do > > I close a specific port within the RedHat OS? > > > > One last question, the port scan also returns 81 UDP ports as open or not > > answering, should I close these as well? Port scans run from the same subnet as you are scanning always show more ports open than there actually are. For a true evaluation, run the scan from outside the subnet. -- Jack Bowling mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
