Re: [cobalt-users] Port 137 Question: Revisited

[Elmer Fuddpucker <elmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Wayne Sagar wrote:

} Please.. anyone.. can we safely turn off monitoring port 137 or can we
} totally tell apache to close that port?

Hi Wayne,

	There's absolutely no need whatsoever to have portsentry
watch port 137 - you have no services running on it thus all
portsentry is doing is telling you that someone tried to do this or
that on that particular port. I block 137 at our router - along with
a few others, such as port 111 which we don't use either.

	One must remember that portsentry primarily monitors ports
that are not used.

	brent

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