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....
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James McDonald
Systems Engineer
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