From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 4 19: 7:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from icicle.winternet.com (icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F0715106 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 19:07:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrahlstr@mail.winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA13563; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:03:21 -0600 (CST) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma013513; Thu, 4 Mar 99 21:02:55 -0600 Received: (from nrahlstr@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) id VAA22732; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:02:53 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19990304210253.B22633@winternet.com> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:02:53 -0600 From: Nathan Ahlstrom To: Spidey , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: sunrpc, printer and unknown (??) port opened References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Spidey on Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 07:32:42PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I installed nmap on my machine to improve security and remarked few > mysterious ports enabled... > > Port Number Protocol Service > 21 tcp ftp > 25 tcp smtp > 53 tcp domain > 111 tcp sunrpc > 515 tcp printer > 1024 tcp unknown > > I know what is ftp, smtp, and domain, as I asked for them. But the sunrpc, > printer and, most of all, unknown port are for me horrible mysteries that > I _need_ to resolve... What is sunrpc? Is it a program listening for rpc? > And what could unknown be??? I believe that 'sunrpc' is the portmapper. 'printer' I would presume is lpd. Ports 1024 and above are unassigned (I think?) thus unknown? Good Luck, Nathan -- Nathan Ahlstrom nrahlstr@winternet.com http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message