From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 17 16:56:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA29522 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 16:56:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA29511 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 16:56:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA11181; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 16:56:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 16:56:48 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jamie Lawrence cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netstat reporting foreign address as *.* In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Jamie Lawrence wrote: > What does the final line from this snipped netstat output > indicate? I'd never seen it before today. > > colonel: {316} netstat > Active Internet connections > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address (state) > tcp 0 0 www.findelvis.co.http kenton-cs-2.dial.1215 ESTABLISHED > tcp 0 80 205.217.47.82.telnet vegas.2050 ESTABLISHED > tcp 0 0 colonel.2257 *.* LISTEN > [...] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It means that a daemon is running, listening on port 2257 for incoming connections. Note the state. Someone is probably running a daemon for some reason; check out ps -ax and look for unusual programs. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major