Stealth Mode networking ?
I have enabled Stealthmode, but when i ping my machine i still get a response. Using OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 ?
Tried disable and enabling it again, still respons back from the machine.
Mac mini, OS X Server, Server 4.x
Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
I have enabled Stealthmode, but when i ping my machine i still get a response. Using OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 ?
Tried disable and enabling it again, still respons back from the machine.
Mac mini, OS X Server, Server 4.x
when i ping my machine i still get a response
Then it is working as designed.
stealth mode only hides the wi-fi network name, and makes the user specify it instead. It turns out there are also other ways to observe the network name anyway.
many Admins consider it useless at protecting your network.
It is standing it hide's you from response to ping. So why is it still responding then ?
stealth mode requires firewall turned on.
You're probably running a server here, based on the forum where this is posted. Servers have open network ports, or they're not much good as servers. Blocking ICMP traffic — "stealth" — makes networking problems harder to debug, and it's far from certain that "stealth" will do what you intend here as a host can generally be spotted through some other open port and active service, and variously also spotted via routing-level traffic. The botnets try anything — ICMP, sniffing open ports via syn scans, brute-force port access attempts, whatever. ICMP traffic is also used by web content caching and content delivery network providers, to establish locality.
Stealth Mode networking ?