Re: Can kannel do port scanning?

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

> 
> Bruno David Simões Rodrigues wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Glad to read that.
> 
> 
> > OffTopic in a kannel list, but have you configured you Suse to run
> portsentry or
> > any other portscaner daemon ?
> 
> No.  I did not install any portscanner daemon on the server.
> 
> But, granting that it has portscanner.  Can kannel run it?  My kannel was
> compiled
> and run by an ordinary user and not root.

I don't understand. You say that your Firewall Admin told you that firewall was
closed because you've done a portscan. Do you want to do a portscan or not to do
it ?

It looks like your firewall dropped your connection due to timeouts and you need
to enable keepalives in your smsc configuration...

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