Perhaps you don’t have iptables running or you don’t want to process icmp stuff in your firewall rules. Echo this as root, and it will take effect immediately. If you’re wondering if changing things like this, tcp timeouts, and open ports will trick nmap fingerprint scanning, the answer is no.

I like the description of spending a friday night spent geeking out. It makes me miss my old viewsonic 21″ CRT that I got for ninety-nine bucks from a busted dot com venture capital business back in the 90’s.

Now edit the lighttpd.conf configuration file to enable ssl. Use the public facing interface’s IP address instead of mine, unless yours happens to be 192.168.1.2 too! And nmap or netstat will let you know it’s listening on port 443