Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 13:56:16 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Kruk <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fics Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.95.1001127135238.23925M-100000@pearl.cs.brandeis.edu> In-Reply-To: <20001127105029.A63148@citusc17.usc.edu>
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btw, why doesn't daily security script include diffs for netstat -an | grep LIST output? that would be kind of useful, no? > It's probably not even fics. People should learn not to believe > /etc/services because it's just a wild guess about what would be using > that port if this were a perfect internet and everyone only used their > assigned port numbers. Obviously, this internet is not perfect, and > port 5000 is an obvious enough port number for a human to pick that it > could be literally anything running there. > > The only way to tell with some kind of assurance what service is > running on a given port is to get on that machine with superuser > privileges and interrogate things, and even then you can't be sure. > > Kris > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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