RE: Open Ports
- From: "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:50:42 -0600
Hi Paul,
Never heard of port knocking until you mentioned it here. I read a few articles
on it today and I'm not clear what value this would add to the ISA firewall.
Care to teach the teacher? :)
Tom
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From: Geldrop, Paul van [mailto:paul.van.geldrop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 2:08 PM
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Subject: RE: [isalist] RE: Open Ports
True. However, with the assumption that a) you actually own the system
and b) you want to use the port-knocking mechanism (therefore making it wanted
code), the concept isn't bogus.
My intention is to have a go at it on my testing environment, just
because it'd be fun to try. :P
I wouldn't dream of even mentioning the concept at a customer.
As far as 'owning the machine', I can imagine you're also referring to
the fact I don't 'own' the ISA server's internals. True. Combining an ISA
server as back-end with, say, a UNIX machine in front with port-knocking on it,
however, would solve that problem. I'm also aware there are plenty of progs
available to do that for me, but, ah hell, I like playing around with code at
times. ;)
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From: Jim Harrison [mailto:Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thu 19-1-2006 20:56
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Subject: [isalist] RE: Open Ports
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The basic idea behind port-knocking is that you have installed an agent
that can control your (local or remote) firewall policies. If you've
accomplished the task of installing unwanted code on a machine that you don't
(actually) own, you've wasting time simply dorking about with firewall policies.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Geldrop, Paul van [mailto:paul.van.geldrop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:45
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Subject: RE: [isalist] RE: Open Ports
Why bogus ?
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From: Jim Harrison [mailto:Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thu 19-1-2006 20:41
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Subject: [isalist] RE: Open Ports
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Port-knocking is a bogus concept.
If you can place your agent on the firewall, it's game over anyway.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Geldrop, Paul van [mailto:paul.van.geldrop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:34
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Subject: RE: [isalist] RE: Open Ports
Actually, the concept of port-knocking applies to this example rather
beautifully.. shame it's not available for ISA 2004. Though I do plan to have a
go at a script for that, just because I wanna. :P
Paul
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From: Alexandre Gauthier [mailto:gauthiera@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thu 19-1-2006 19:59
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Subject: [isalist] RE: Open Ports
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Whenever I hear GRC.com I shudder and start loosing hair. The vision of
Gibson's plump moustache brings vile, unspeakable things back to rise around
the taste buds on the back of my tongue.
And indeed "opening a port" (haha one more kitten/isa just died)only
when requested... wouldn't that be the equivalent of leaving it open?
It's akin to plugging your ears shut and opening them only when the
phone rings. How will you know it is ringing and that someone attempts to
communicate with you?
Either I misunderstood or something here is clearly illogical.
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Jim Harrison [mailto:Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Envoyé : 19 janvier 2006
12:09 À : [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Objet : [isalist] RE: Open Ports
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You've been to GRC.com again, haven't you?
:-P
Both HTTP and FTP use the TCP protocol to get where they're going.
It's a basic precept of TCP communications that you can't respond to a
connection request if you don't accept them.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Rogers [mailto:trogers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 08:59
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Subject: [isalist] Open Ports
Ports 80 and 21 are open statically on my ISA 2000 SP-2 server. I
publish websites through ISA and a single FTP site. How do I make these ports
open dynamically - only when proper access is needed?
TIA,
-Tom Rogers
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