Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:48:08 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Hank Wethington <bsd@info-logix.com> Cc: BSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: open ports question Message-ID: <20000629134807.V275@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <KFEIIDCJNHBCGLAFNMJICEIOCGAA.bsd@info-logix.com>; from bsd@info-logix.com on Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 01:40:46PM -0700 References: <20000629131811.U275@fw.wintelcom.net> <KFEIIDCJNHBCGLAFNMJICEIOCGAA.bsd@info-logix.com>
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* Hank Wethington <bsd@info-logix.com> [000629 13:41] wrote: > The inetd.conf file was edited over 3 months ago, the machine has had many > reboots since then. > > Forgive me for being hesitant about listing open ports. I have security for > port scans but direct access to a port. If there is a know exploit it can't > be stopped if I'm not looking on. > > the ones I currently have open are: > > 79 Finger > 111 Portmapper (in rc.conf I have portmap_enable="NO" so why is this coming > up?) > 119 NNTP which is not running as the machine is not acting as a news server > 143 IMAP, again not running that I know of > 540 UUCP > 1024 ??? > > and a few others. I can block all of them with my fire wall rules, but I'm > wondering why they're open in the first place. what does 'ps -ax' show? Are you sure you haven't installed stuff that's running out of /usr/local/etc/rc.d that may be binding to these ports? how are you determining that these ports are in fact open? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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