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How To Use Port Knocking On Linux

Port knocking is a method of securing a server by keeping firewall ports closed even for known services, and only opening them if the connection request provides the correct secret sequence of port taps, similar to a secret knock used to enter speakeasies during prohibition when alcohol was banned. The document discusses how port knocking works by keeping ports closed until the secret knock, or sequence of port taps, is received to open them on demand.

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How To Use Port Knocking On Linux

Port knocking is a method of securing a server by keeping firewall ports closed even for known services, and only opening them if the connection request provides the correct secret sequence of port taps, similar to a secret knock used to enter speakeasies during prohibition when alcohol was banned. The document discusses how port knocking works by keeping ports closed until the secret knock, or sequence of port taps, is received to open them on demand.

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How to Use Port Knocking on

Linux
Port knocking is a way to secure a server by closing firewall ports—even those you
know will be used. Those ports are opened on demand if—and only if—the connection
request provides the secret knock.dasdas

Port Knocking Is a “Secret Knock”


In the 1920s, when prohibition was in full swing, if you wanted to get into
a speakeasy, you had to know the secret knock and tap it out correctly to get inside.

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