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Re: a record?


From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:25:27 +0530


On 11/16/05, Patrick Lynchehaun <plynchehaun () servecentric com> wrote:

In Iptables you can keep port 22 closed until needed, opening it first by
telneting to a higher port say 5500 and Iptables just giving access to this
ip. If you want to close it again you can telnet back in on another assigned
port say 5501, thus closing ssh port to that ip.


Yup. AKA "port knocking" which I think someone did mention upthread


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