UPDATE: I resolved the issue by unplugging the router,
waiting a few seconds and then plugging it back in. Ran
a port scan and now it reports 21 as BLOCKED.
I'm stll curious to know if someone else has experienced
this kind of behavior. Thanks!
>-----Original Message-----
>Scenario:
>I have a MN-500 router, firmware: V1.11.017. I noticed
>my FTP logs on my server were being updated. Upon
>further investigation, I noticed external IPs were
>accessing my FTP server and trying to logon (anoymnous
is
>disabled, of course). This is alarming because I am NOT
>forwarding FTP traffic to my server. I only open FTP up
>when I need to FTP something to myself or let friends
>connect. To make sure I wasn't crazy, I completely
>removed port 21 from my base station's port forwarding
>configuration and made sure the change was applied by
>logging out and back in. Port 21 is not referenced
>anywhere now in my base station management tool. After
>that, I ran a scan.sygate.com port scan and it is still
>reporting 21 as OPEN. Yikes!
>
>Question:
>Anyone experience this before? For example, you
disabled
>or completely removed a port from the router's
forwarding
>configuration, but you still are able to connect to that
>port?
>
>.
>
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