Re: Can kannel do port scanning?

Citando "Andy Elacion, Jr." <[email protected]>:

> I have installed kannel on SuSE Linux.  I also configured SuSE's
> Firewall feature and close all ports except for the ports that kannel
> uses  and it is also in a private network.  In short I configured kannel
> on a secured server.
> 
> It is running fine for at leat a year now, without a problem.  Until
> today.  Here's the what we encountered.
> 
> Our kannel stops receiving incoming transaction from our local telco.
> We traceroute and ping to the telco's SMS Server and we were able to get
> a reply ( though kannel do not receive transaction ).  We called the
> telco's Firewall Administrator and discuss to him our problem.
> According to him our server is port scanning their Server, thus Firewall
> drops our connection.
> 
> My question is this.  Can Kannel do a port scan if it do not receive
> transaction?

No, it won't.

OffTopic in a kannel list, but have you configured you Suse to run portsentry or
any other portscaner daemon ?

I remember that portsentry opens some honeypot ports and when anyone else
connects to those ports, portsentry will could reply back, probably with its own
portscan.


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> 
> Thank you very much,
> Andy
> 
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