[Bruce Schneier <schneier at counterpane.com>] CRYPTO-GRAM, October 15, 2002

[Bill Frantz]

At 7:47 PM -0700 10/15/02, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>                  CRYPTO-GRAM
>
>                October 15, 2002
>
>               by Bruce Schneier
>
>...
>** *** ***** ******* *********** *************
>
>     National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
>
>
>... Preliminary drafts included a suggestion that ISPs
>provide all their users with personal firewalls; that was taken out
>because ISPs didn't want to look bad for not already doing something
>like that.

Does anyone run a service that will check an IP address for open ports?
(I'd like to test my firewall.)

Cheers - Bill

[Moderator's note: I'm not aware of one -- it would doubtless be
 abused -- but just running nmap against the machine should work
 fine. That's what I do. --Perry]


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