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hide uptime of systems in DMZ Timo Schoeler 05-14-07
Posted by Timo Schoeler on May 14, 2007, 8:10 am
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hi,

is there any way to hide uptime of systems in an ASA-5520's DMZ?

from outside i see (e.g.)

(blablabla)

Uptime 0.020 days (since Mon May 14 13:38:49 2007)
TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=truly random
Difficulty=9999999 (Good luck!)
IPID Sequence Generation: All zeros

Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 61.469 seconds
Raw packets sent: 3429 (153.492KB) | Rcvd: 30 (1680B)

thanks,

timo

Posted by Walter Roberson on May 14, 2007, 10:31 am
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>is there any way to hide uptime of systems in an ASA-5520's DMZ?

>from outside i see (e.g.)


>Uptime 0.020 days (since Mon May 14 13:38:49 2007)
>TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=truly random
> Difficulty=9999999 (Good luck!)
>IPID Sequence Generation: All zeros

>Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 61.469 seconds

The only way to read the uptime is via snmp, so configure your snmp
parameters (and change your snmp community while you are at it.)

Posted by Timo Schoeler on May 14, 2007, 10:36 am
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Walter Roberson wrote:
>
>> is there any way to hide uptime of systems in an ASA-5520's DMZ?
>
>>from outside i see (e.g.)
>
>
>> Uptime 0.020 days (since Mon May 14 13:38:49 2007)
>> TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=truly random
>> Difficulty=9999999 (Good luck!)
>> IPID Sequence Generation: All zeros
>
>> Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 61.469 seconds
>
> The only way to read the uptime is via snmp, so configure your snmp
> parameters (and change your snmp community while you are at it.)

i don't want to read my internal uptime (which i in fact do via snmp),
but i want to hide it.

i'd like to prevent nmap et al. to fingerprint our system's uptime. for
my OpenBSD babies this is no problem, but those GNU/Linux boxen are bare
naked. can ASA hide their uptime? pf can...

regards,

timo

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