Re: Is my home computer at risk knowing that nmap says...

On 29 May 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.security, in article
<1148971350.814822.316660@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, GM wrote:

Molsons; I don't have at hand right now. But Singha, yes I do. And I am
glad to send!

Two virtual Singha received with pleasure! Thank you!

And yes, firewall rules are set to "DROP".

That's what it looks like from here. You don't have a problem with your
server - the problem is some strange proxy in Thailand.

By the way, I could also receive another nmap output, this one executed
right in my home town and the result is what I was more expecting to
see (below)

Looks fine.

Great thanks again for this insight

I'd be slightly curious what the actual host is doing, but I think it's
pretty obvious now that you got mislead by false results. The TTL figure
should tell this, but it's something no one ever looks at. I'd suspect
that there is some confusion based on the different handling of ICMP, UDP
and TCP by this proxy.

Old guy
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