options httpd.admin.enable off will stop access to FilerView.
If http is unlicensed, and httpd.enable and httpd.admin.enable are both switched off, then any sockets opened on port 80 will be immediately closed (this behaviour was initiated to address BURT 4998).
Regards,
Andrew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Whittaker [mailto:kenw@cruzoid.com]
> Sent: 20 September 2001 00:51
> To: leigh(a)ai.mit.edu; toasters(a)mathworks.com
> Subject: Re: port 80 answers tcp
>
>
>
> I think the filer listens on port 80 even when http is
> unlicensed so that it
> can offer
> html-ized man pages. I'm not sure there is a way to turn it
> completely
> off...?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Leigh David Heyman" <leigh(a)ai.mit.edu>
> To: <toasters(a)mathworks.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 8:34 AM
> Subject: port 80 answers tcp
>
>
> > Hi,
> > I've noticed that in DoT, the filer still has tcp port 80 open and
> listening
> > even with "options httpd.enable off."
> >
> > Since the nimda and code red worms send attack traffic to
> any hosts which
> > respond on port 80, regardless of whether it's a vulnerable windows
> webserver,
> > is there any way to actually prevent the filer from having
> tcp port 80
> open
> > and listening?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Leigh
> >
> >
> >
> =====================================================================
> > Leigh Heyman,GCIA Artificial
> Intelligence Lab
> > Systems Administrator Massachusetts Institute of
> Technology
> > leigh(a)ai.mit.edu
> 617-253-1729
> >
> >
> >
> >
>