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06-23-2004, 10:11 AM
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How to close ports
How can I close port under mandrake 9.1. Which file has to be edited?
Last edited by hudy; 06-23-2004 at 10:17 AM.
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06-23-2004, 10:34 AM
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LQ Guru
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Distribution: Gentoo!
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In Mandrake control center under security there is a firewall option that allows for you to block ports
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06-23-2004, 11:15 AM
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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Can
Distribution: Slackware, ubuntu
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if you have iptables already setup just type:
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iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -dport <port#> -j DROP
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06-23-2004, 11:57 AM
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Distribution: Fedora
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//Moderator note: Please try and make your thread titles as relevent as possible. Thanks.
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06-23-2004, 03:12 PM
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Location: London
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Thank you very much - guys it helped
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