From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 4 19:19:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from localhost.jsp.umontreal.ca (derby.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4DCB15134 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 19:19:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spidey@jsp.umontreal.ca) Received: from localhost (spidey@localhost) by localhost.jsp.umontreal.ca (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id WAA26529; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 22:19:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spidey@jsp.umontreal.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.jsp.umontreal.ca: spidey owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 22:19:15 -0500 (EST) From: Spidey Reply-To: Spidey To: Nathan Ahlstrom Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: sunrpc, printer and unknown (??) port opened In-Reply-To: <19990304210253.B22633@winternet.com> 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 Could X listen on the port 1024? On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Nathan Ahlstrom wrote: > > > 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/ > ############################### ## Au nom de l'etat, ## ## La force s'appelle droit. ## ## Au main de l'individu, ## ## Elle se nomme crime. ## ## ## ## -Berurier Noir ## ############################### Spidey Visitez http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message