worms worms worms

James McDonald james
Mon May 17 11:51:03 PDT 2004


> The usefulness of a site like ShieldsUp is that it gives you the 
> ability, from inside, to initiatate a test from outside, to see if that 
> firewall you just put up is working. If there is a better such site 
> available, I'd sure like to know about it.

I use a shell account on an external box for this... i.e. dialup to the 
internet putty/ssh to my ADSL connected linux box and then run nmap 
against the new network/host....

-- 
James McDonald
Systems Engineer
Singleton NSW Australia

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