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

[Russ Johnson]

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.

It's possible that you have iptables blocking your connections to those 
ports, and thus, nmap reports them as filtered.

Just a guess.

Russ