Re: Running stealth servers

John Kaitschuck wrote:

> Have you considered "port knocking", which is similar to what
> your describing.

Hi John,

I was not aware of the port knocking, but it seems as near as dammit
identical to what I had in mind. I "invented" it too late!!

On thing that stuck me as odd reading one of the articles on port knocking

http://netsecurity.about.com/gi/dyna...p%3Fsid%3D6811

is that they say you have a limited number (about 256) ports available.
But they seem to be considering only privilidged ports below 1024. I
can't see why as in my original idea you can't use ports above that. Not
that I feel there is any need to use 256 ports, but I don't know why
they think why that is a limit.

Perhaps it explains it somewhere. There were so many flashing graphics I
got fed up reading it, so went elsewhere.



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