Re: Port 113 is closed Shields Up

"Volker Birk" <bumens@dingens.org> wrote in message
news:431a4e13@news.uni-ulm.de...
> Cyber Surfer <cyber_surfer@shaw.ca> wrote:
> > D-Link has instructions at
> > http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.asp?prod_id=1068 on how to stealth
Port
> > 113. Just follow the instructions. I have the same D-Link Router as you
do,
> > and it works flawlessly.
>
> please tell me, why you think your port is "stealth", say: invisible.
> What should that be, an "invisible" port?
>
> Is your router modifying the natural numbers, and removing one of them?
> A port is a number between 1 and 65535 together with a layer 4 protocol
> like UDP or TCP. With this number, your TCP/IP stack software can assign
> datagrams to sockets and therefore to processes.
>
> There is nothing, you could "stealth" at all. This is just nonsense,
> basing on the misinterpretation of the term "port", wich does _not_ mean
> door here, nor harbor, but just a maintenance number.

Stealth as per Shields Up
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

Press Proceed then do
Common Ports
All Service ports
File Sharing
Received on Thu Sep 29 20:06:30 2005