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[Net Llama!]

On 08/13/03 16:04, Michael Hipp wrote:

> Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for the scan. These ports I expected to be open, except for 1024
>> (kdm). I just wonder why ShieldsUp didn't detect these ports. It looks 
>> like
>> I was inviting the world to log onto my X server. I have never found 
>> anyone
>> doing this. It is password protected. I have to conclude that 
>> ShieldsUp is bogus.
> 
> 
> It's not bogus. Mr. Gibson is well respected and his site is widely 
> used. Dunno why it didn't work properly on your system. I might guess 
> that it misidentified your IP address, or perhaps the fact that the 
> Internet has been only half working all day caused it to timeout.

No, its definitely the website.  Its never done a very reliable or thorough 
port scan.  I've played with that site quite a few times over the past few 
years, and its never produced results that coincided with what nmap provided.


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