Re: Advice pls on what is happening on my system

Re: Advice pls on what is happening on my system

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Re: Advice pls on what is happening on my system Volker Birk 12-09-2005
Posted by Volker Birk on December 9, 2005, 6:53 am
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> I am on a cable connection in the UK with no other PCs or printers
> attached. I use FILSECLAB's personal firewall.
> I downloaded and installed "TreeWalk DNS" a week ago on my XP Pro
> system. As I am in the UK I also installed the "ORSC Slave-Root"
> package. I have to say I am not particularly familiar with the
> technical details of DNS lookups.

Yes.

> OBSERVATIONS
> Today I booted up. Before I manually launched anything I saw the
> following entries shown below in my firewall monitor.

Port 53 are DNS requests. Why are you using such tools, if you don't
understand what they're monitoring?

The Windows-Firewall will be enough to be secure against network worms.

If you want to learn more about networking and the TCP/IP protocol familiy,
Craig Hunt's "TCP/IP" (O'Reilly) and this one could help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

Yours,
VB.
--
"Ich bin ein freier Mensch und werde jetzt von meinen Freiheitsrechten
Gebrauch machen - und zwar ausgiebig - natürlich nur in dem Rahmen, den
Otto Schily mir noch zur Verfügung stellt."
Wolfgang Clement am 10.10.05 als Noch-Superminister

Posted by Jason Edwards on December 9, 2005, 8:06 am
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> > I am on a cable connection in the UK with no other PCs or printers
> > attached. I use FILSECLAB's personal firewall.
> > I downloaded and installed "TreeWalk DNS" a week ago on my XP Pro
> > system. As I am in the UK I also installed the "ORSC Slave-Root"
> > package. I have to say I am not particularly familiar with the
> > technical details of DNS lookups.
>
> Yes.
>
> > OBSERVATIONS
> > Today I booted up. Before I manually launched anything I saw the
> > following entries shown below in my firewall monitor.
>
> Port 53 are DNS requests. Why are you using such tools, if you don't
> understand what they're monitoring?

Possibly to gain an understanding of what they are monitoring.
It's true that driving a car is a bad idea if you don't know how to drive.
But if you never drive one at all then you'll never learn how.

Jason

>
> The Windows-Firewall will be enough to be secure against network worms.
>
> If you want to learn more about networking and the TCP/IP protocol
familiy,
> Craig Hunt's "TCP/IP" (O'Reilly) and this one could help:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
>
> Yours,
> VB.
> --
> "Ich bin ein freier Mensch und werde jetzt von meinen Freiheitsrechten
> Gebrauch machen - und zwar ausgiebig - natürlich nur in dem Rahmen, den
> Otto Schily mir noch zur Verfügung stellt."
> Wolfgang Clement am 10.10.05 als Noch-Superminister



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