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Re: analysis of auditable port scanning techniques

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henrik Nordstrom)
Tue Jan 9 12:16:40 2001

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Date:         Tue, 9 Jan 2001 01:34:59 +0100
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From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@HEM.PASSAGEN.SE>
X-To:         Dan Harkless <dan-bugtraq@DILVISH.SPEED.NET>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM

Dan Harkless wrote:

> Well, there's a feature request for auth/ident/tap daemons running on OSes
> (if any) that can distinguish after-the-fact between connections that
> originated locally and those that originated remotely.  Assuming that
> doesn't break RFCs 931 / 1413, of course (I'd re-read them right now to
> check, if I had the time)...

Well, the simple fix would to deny queries for ports where there is a
local service listening on the same interface/IP (or "ANY").

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Henrik Nordstrom

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