[GTALUG] Ubuntu -- Disabling Ping

James Knott james.knott at jknott.net
Thu Aug 30 11:49:26 EDT 2018


On 08/30/2018 11:43 AM, Howard Gibson via talk wrote:
> My first 1056 ports are closed, but it responds to ping.  This is my router.  My desktop behind the router is not particularly well locked down. 

Those would be TCP ports.  I'm not sure they even test UDP.  Ping is
ICMP, which doesn't even have port numbers and so wouldn't be found in
any port scan.



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