Services on port 113 'closed' not stealthed

[PV5150]

'Lo all

I just bought myself a new 'Super G' router and everything is running sweet. The question I have is that when I went and tested my new firewall, all three tests that I ran showed that the IDENT service on port 113 was not showing up as stealthed, but 'closed'. Just for confirmation and my own peace of mind; Mirc is the only program that I know of that uses this port, and I don't use it that much. What I was thinking of doing is forwarding that port to an a non existant local IP on my network - 192.168.0.500 for example. If I left port 113 'closed', but not stealthed, it would mean a remote machine would know a live system is out there, but it would be unable to gain entry in theory. Comments or suggestions greatly appreciated

 

[Homer]

What I was thinking of doing is forwarding that port to an a non existant local IP on my network - 192.168.0.500 for example

Yea you can do that and you can closed port 113 on your router in outside...

I think this solution is more proper

Anyway everyone know that the best way is to closed all ports for outbound connections exept the port you need like 80, 21, 110, 270xx etc...

This way if you download a trojan or another ****in virus it cannot connect to net.

(sorry for my english)

 

[PV5150]

Thank you for taking the time to answer Homer

 

[Homer]

np m8 you are welcome

 

[Toxteth O'Grady]

or you can DMZ your router to the dummy LAN IP address and that will stealth all your ports.



TOG