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Package: portsentry (1.2-11.3 and others)

Portscan detection daemon

PortSentry has the ability to detect portscans(including stealth scans) on the network interfaces of your machine. Upon alarm it can block the attacker via hosts.deny, dropped route or firewall rule. It is part of the Abacus program suite.

Note: If you have no idea what a port/stealth scan is, It's recommended to have a look at http://sf.net/projects/sentrytools/ before installing this package. Otherwise you might easily block hosts you'd better not (e.g. your NFS-server, name-server, etc.).

Tags: User Interface: Daemon, Networking: Server, Service, Role: Program, Security: Intrusion Detection, Purpose: Monitoring

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Architecture Version Package Size Installed Size Files
alpha 1.2-11.3 77.9 kB316 kB [list of files]
amd64 1.2-11.3 72.3 kB308 kB [list of files]
armel 1.2-11.3 71.5 kB300 kB [list of files]
avr32 (unofficial port) 1.2-11.3 70.9 kB300 kB [list of files]
hppa 1.2-11.3 72.5 kB304 kB [list of files]
hurd-i386 1.2-11.3 71.7 kB304 kB [list of files]
i386 1.2-11.3 71.7 kB304 kB [list of files]
ia64 1.2-11.3 77.9 kB336 kB [list of files]
kfreebsd-amd64 1.2-11.3 72.8 kB218 kB [list of files]
kfreebsd-i386 1.2-11.3 71.6 kB212 kB [list of files]
m68k (unofficial port) 1.2-11.2 70.6 kB288 kB [list of files]
mips 1.2-11.3 71.0 kB312 kB [list of files]
mipsel 1.2-11.3 72.6 kB312 kB [list of files]
powerpc 1.2-11.3 73.5 kB308 kB [list of files]
s390 1.2-11.3 72.7 kB304 kB [list of files]
sparc 1.2-11.3 71.8 kB304 kB [list of files]