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From: Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Please List Your Open Ports
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 17:38:31 -0500
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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.
>>
>>
>> Have no idea what these all mean.
>>
> 
> It means that the average distro is exposing itself to potential
> security threats.
> 
> For a standalone workstation there should be no open ports.
> 
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> 
> 


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.