Re: Please List Your Open Ports

On 3/16/25 2:52 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 13:50:15 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:
 

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I get 12 open ports. 6 of them have status of LISTEN.
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Have no idea what these all mean.
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 It means that the average distro is exposing itself to potential
security threats.
 For a standalone workstation there should be no open ports.
    

I vaguely remember asking this question before. What do you mean by a "standalone" computer?
I have 24x7 access to internet of course. Would that mean I'm not using a standalone computer?
And since you posted this thread, I looked into closing the unneeded ports, and was not successful cause giving the command involved would not recognize the information about the port that I was giving it.
Then I looked whether I could find if repeated attempts have been made to log into my computer, and were somehow led to installing fail2ban. But I don't understand well enough what it exactly does and how I'm supposed to use it. Yet.