[CentOS] Port 631 closed, not hidden

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazqueznet at gmail.com
Fri Nov 23 05:02:31 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 10:17 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
> Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 02:48 -0500, Miark wrote:
> >> I have the firewall turned on my CentOS 5 box, but GRC is
> >> reporting that 631 is closed instead of stealthed. If the
> >> firewall isn't configured to allow that, then why might that
> >> be happening?
> > 
> > The cups service opens port 631, regardless of your firewall settings.
> > It then manually accepts or rejects connections.
> > 
> 
> Yes but the firewall does affect whether packets can reach the cups 
> service or not.

Huh, they finally removed the commands in the cups initscript that
punched a hole in the firewall. Never mind then.

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>

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