Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 11:01:45 +0100 (CET) From: "Colin Raven" <me@colin-raven.com> To: "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Repeated connection attempts in daily output Message-ID: <43871.62.251.72.148.1076148105.squirrel@t-x.dignus.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040207094414.GC7043@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <43003.62.251.72.148.1076145726.squirrel@t-x.dignus.nl> <20040207094414.GC7043@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Saturday February 7 2004 at 10:44, Mathew Seaman responded: > On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 10:22:06AM +0100, Colin Raven wrote: > >> Connection attempt to TCP 217.xxx.xxx.xxx:6881 from 12.215.41.59:1519 >> flags:0x02 > >> The well known ports number list from iana.org shows port 1519 as >> follows: >> vpvd 1518/udp Virtual Places Video data >> vpvc 1519/tcp Virtual Places Video control >> >> but there's no mention of 6881. > > Ports 6881-6889 are used by BitTorrent. It's probably not a malicious > attack. Ah, thanks for that indeed! It's odd though that iana.org doesn't list this fact in their (usually invaluable) port number list. OK, my mind is now at rest a bit more than before! :-) Regards, Thanks & Greetings from the Netherlands, -Colin
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