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What does it mean when a portscan shows a port as "tcpwrapped"?

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I see tcpwrapper once in a while as a service, what does it mean?

Error Output

Interesting ports on 192.168.1.76:
Not shown: 998 closed ports
PORT      STATE SERVICE    VERSION
22/tcp    open  ssh        OpenSSH 5.2 (protocol 2.…

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I'm assuming that's an nmap scan or similar. TCP Wrapper is a client side software solution for Linux/BSD machines which provides firewall features. It monitors all incoming packets to the machine and if an external node attempts to connect, the sof…

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