Monday, January 30, 2006

portsentry


Last night I found Portsentry that will notice port scans and will block future accesses from those hosts.  I followed these instructions to install Portsentry 1.2, and it went very well.  The only problems that I had was I had to remove an extra newline in portsentry.c when the compile failed, and the sample init script has an extra '<' character in it.


After I installed it, I wanted to test this out to make sure that it was working, so from my home machine, I ran nmap against it.  This recognized the port scan, and blocked it with iptables.  I knew that if I restarted iptables, the rule would be wiped out.  But when I tried that, I still couldn't ssh into the machine.  It took me a while, but I realized that Portsentry added an entry to hosts.deny.  Once I removed that entry, everything worked fine again.


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