Re: Port question

On 2009-06-26 Murda Mcloud wrote:
If anything, you should be worried about ports that show up as
"stealth".

Hey Ansgar-do you mean because there is no way of knowing exactly what
your system is doing with the packet? Therefore no way of knowing that
it has done the 'right' thing?

No. Because it's utter nonsense. There is no "stealth" in TCP/IP.
Period. If a given host is not reachable from your current location,
then some router along the way will respond with a "destination
unreachable" ICMP packet. Not receiving a response normally means that
for some reason your packets (or the responses) are being dropped, which
indicates that the target is there rather than the opposite.

I suppose it could be 'did not respond' rather than 'stealthed' as the
result from the grc site.

That would be the correct way to put it. However, Gibson insists in
deceiving people into believing they could magically hide their
computers by not responding to packets. Which, of course, they can't.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
--
"The Mac OS X kernel should never panic because, when it does, it
seriously inconveniences the user."
--http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2004/tn2118.html

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