SYN Stealth Scan

Hi,

I have written a firewall with iptables.
Now I have a question regarding to SYN Stealth Scan!

When I am running Nmap with Syn Stealth Scan he always finds the services
which I am running.
I tried it with the following entry:

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --sport 22 ! --syn -j DROP.

Nonetheless, it is possible to scan the service.

Is there any possibility to drop this?

When someone can tell me the right entry please!

Thx,
Bernd Roth

On Sun, 02 May 2004 21:05:10 GMT
"Bernd Roth" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have written a firewall with iptables.
> Now I have a question regarding to SYN Stealth Scan!
>
> When I am running Nmap with Syn Stealth Scan he always finds the services
> which I am running.
> I tried it with the following entry:
>
> iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --sport 22 ! --syn -j DROP.
>
Looks good

> Nonetheless, it is possible to scan the service.
>
> Is there any possibility to drop this?
>
> When someone can tell me the right entry please!

IMHO, there is no possability to block a scan on certain ports without disabling the service it offers. What you can do is, if a scan is detected, block every connection from there. But be warned, it can be forged, eg with ftp-bounce scan.

Greets
Chris

Bernd Roth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have written a firewall with iptables.
> Now I have a question regarding to SYN Stealth Scan!
>
> When I am running Nmap with Syn Stealth Scan he always finds the services
> which I am running.
> I tried it with the following entry:
>
> iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --sport 22 ! --syn -j DROP.
>
> Nonetheless, it is possible to scan the service.
>

You're blocking the source port here. You probably want to
block the connection to the destination port 22 to
keep the service at port 22 undisturbed.

HTH

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi

On 2004-05-04, Tauno Voipio <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Bernd Roth wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have written a firewall with iptables.
>> Now I have a question regarding to SYN Stealth Scan!
>>
>> When I am running Nmap with Syn Stealth Scan he always finds the services
>> which I am running.
>> I tried it with the following entry:
>>
>> iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --sport 22 ! --syn -j DROP.
>>
>> Nonetheless, it is possible to scan the service.
>>
>
> You're blocking the source port here. You probably want to
> block the connection to the destination port 22 to
> keep the service at port 22 undisturbed.
>
just to add my £0.02

http://support.metronet.co.uk/adsl/s...s/security.txt

Something I wrote about stealthing ports.....please consider not doing so.
Some poor tech guy at your ISP is going to get very annoyed.

Cheers

Alex