[Eug-lug] shut down unneeded ports in Gentoo?

[Bob Miller]

Rob Hudson wrote:

> When I run "netstat -pant", I do not see the opened ports, only 22, 25, 
> 80, and 993.  Which makes me think "filtered" means something. 
> According to the nmap manpage, "Filtered means that a firewall, filter, 
> or other network obstacle is covering the port and preventing nmap from 
> determining whether the port is open."  I haven't yet set up a firewall 
> so it's not that.

Are you running iptables?  That would explain it.
Portsentry is another program that filters ports.

> I don't see any inet or xinet in my /etc directory.  Does Gentoo put 
> those somewhere else or not use it?

xinetd is not part of the base Gentoo install.  If you didn't
emerge it yourself, you don't have it.

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