[ILUG] Strange firewall log enteries [?hacking attempts]

[Timothy Murphy]

On Tuesday 11 May 2004 14:10, Dermot McGahon wrote:

> > Is there a tutorial for the simple-minded anywhere
> > on how to check one's firewall?
>
> Nessus was a good suggestion. nmap it from a machine
> outside of your network is another to see what services
> are running on which ports.

Thanks, I'm looking at Nessus now --
it seems more or less what I want.

> > Final question: why did I put
> > ==================================
> > $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp --sport 6881:6999 -j ACCEPT
> > $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 6881:6999 -j ACCEPT
> > ==================================
> > in my rc.local ?
>
> Bittorrent.

I remember now, I started to download Fedora-1 with BitTorrent,
but then decided it might annoy Sir Anthony O'Reilly if I continued,
so turned to a straight download.
I've removed these strange lines from my rc.local .

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