Close telnet with firestarter?

hello,

I am using firestarter on fedora6 and it is working great. When i test
all ports all are in stealth mode except for the telnet port 23. How
can i close this port as well.

Thx,

Johan

Johan wrote:
> hello,
>
> I am using firestarter on fedora6 and it is working great. When i test
> all ports all are in stealth mode except for the telnet port 23. How
> can i close this port as well.

First off, your question presupposes that "stealth mode" ports are
closed. They are not. "Stealth" means that (according to the standards)
your TCP/IP stack is broken. "Closed" means that your TCP/IP stack is
working correctly, and you do not have any service at the addressed
port. Many installations deliberately break their TCP/IP stack so that
it does not return any data (this is "stealth" mode). "Closed" ports
return an ICMP error message to the incoming data stream.

If you want to /close/ your telnet port, stop running telnet.
Or configure telnet to not use your public IP address.
Or configure your firewall to DENY packets destined for port 23 on your
public IP address

If you want to /stealth/ your telnet port, configure your firewall to
DROP packets destined for port 23 on your public IP address.

Note that either condition ("stealth" or "closed") means that there
will be no access to your Telnet from the network so managed.

HTH
--
Lew