hide uptime of systems in DMZ

May 14, 2007 2 Replies

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


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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