Re: translation to random source port?

Dave Ockwell-Jenner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.ipfilter
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Is there any increased visibility of a need for this feature; given  
the recent DNS vulnerability discussions. I have clients who are  
patching their DNS servers to provide source-port randomization, but  
are behind NAT which renders such randomization moot.

Cheers,
Dave.

On Jun 13, 2008, at 4:25 AM, Darren Reed wrote:

> Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>> I have:
>>
>> map ral0 from any port = 4791 to any -> 0/32 portmap tcp/udp  
>> 5000:60000
>>
>> As documented in man page I see it does use incremental port  
>> numbers for the new port (5000, 5001, 5002, ... as seen with  
>> tcpdump.)
>>
>> Anyway to randomize my new source port?
>>
>
> Not yet.
>
> If you'd like to add a random port feature, my preference would be  
> for it
> to be added to the active development version of IPFilter that you can
> get from CVS on sourceforge.net/projects/ipfilter/ but all code  
> contributions
> are welcome :)
>
> Cheers,
> Darren
>
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