From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 6 10:14:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from osage.gate.net (osage.gate.net [198.206.134.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F006914DDC for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 10:14:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wjm@gate.net) Received: from inca.gate.net (wjm@inca.gate.net [199.227.0.11]) by osage.gate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA78506 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 13:14:21 -0500 Received: from localhost (wjm@localhost) by inca.gate.net (8.8.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA46872 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 13:14:26 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: inca.gate.net: wjm owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 13:14:25 -0500 (EST) From: William Melanson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: netstat -a | grep LISTEN (question) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all, tcp 0 0 *.http *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.6000 *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.1024 *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.smtp *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.pop3 *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.telnet *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.ftp *.* LISTEN The only listening ports I'm curious about are 6000 which points to the X Window System and 1024 which says (within /etc/services) it's a registered port. Do these 2 listening ports possibly represent a venue for an intruder to compromise? Does anyone have a bit more info in regards to these 2 open ports in question? thanxs much - Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message