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[Madison Kelly]

Ditto with Sympatico. I hate Bell as a company in many ways but as an 
ISP they tnd to leave you alone.

Madison

BTW - If it's IPTables thing (which, IIRc it is) then you can put a rule 
in that says for mail answer scans but for the rest of teh ports ignore. 
  Darn, now I'm annoyed that I can't remember! I will have to look and 
see what it was exactly because I can feel it clinging tenaciously to 
the edge of my brain... :)

JoeHill wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:55:03 -0400
> Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> uttered:
> 
> 
>>IIRC from reading the man page on NMAP or IPTables isn't there a way
>>to setup a box/firewall to not answer port scans? Something about
>>simply not responging unless it is a specific request for the server
>>(ie. http-get request for Apache)? I wish I could remember details but
>>anyway it might be a way to keep Rogers off your back.
> 
> 
> I know on my router I have this option: Ignore ping and port scans from
> WAN. I *assume* this means that the router will not answer. I have,
> however, noticed, that this can cause other problems, since for example
> when you go to send an e-mail, they may ping or scan to make sure you
> are coming from their network.
> 
> In any case, the best way to deal with any accusations that one is
> violating some TOS is to play dumb and deny all knowledge, claim the web
> page was only for internal clients, etc.
> 
> I've been running a webserver on Sympatico for years and nary a peep
> from them.
> 

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