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Re: Someone was banging on my sshd despite NAT


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René Berber writes:

> Your question is how did they get to your firewalled PC, the answer
> is that you must have port forwarding enabled on your firewall and
> port 22 is one of the forwarded ports.  Check your modem and Windows
> firewall, both are allowing this to happen... well, if you have sshd
> running you probably configured Windows XP firewall to allow that
> connection, so you should only check your modem.

Yeah, my bad, sorry to waste bandwidth, I checked the wrong list on my
broadband box, port 22 was in fact open :-(

Thanks,

ht
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