[Full-Disclosure] closing ports

Blue Boar BlueBoar at thievco.com
Fri Nov 7 15:54:35 GMT 2003


Christ-Henning Ljosheim wrote:

> Do you have any tips for which ports I should close to held my network 
> clean for intruders ?
> I've closed port 1214 and 6881 to 6889 . Anyone else I should close ?

As several people have mentioned already, start with deny all, and got from 
there.

Out of curiosity, what prompted you to close the BitTorrent ports for 
security reasons (6881-6889)?

						BB




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