From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 29 13:57:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br (bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br [143.106.51.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77F5C37B730 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:57:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from atabraga@bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br) Received: by bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1F38819C0; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 17:57:01 -0300 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14683.47133.58719.962514@bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 17:57:01 -0300 (EST) From: Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga To: "Hank Wethington" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: open ports question In-Reply-To: References: <20000629131811.U275@fw.wintelcom.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.3.1 Reply-To: atabraga@iqm.unicamp.br X-URL: http://www.iqm.unicamp.br Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG on Thursday, 29 Jun 2000 13:40:46, Hank Wethington 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 ??? 1024 is the xdm. I guess the inetd.conf is the why. > 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. > > Hank > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Alfred > Perlstein > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 1:18 PM > To: Hank Wethington > Cc: BSD > Subject: Re: open ports question > > > * Hank Wethington [000629 12:47] wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I was checking security on my machine by doing a portscan when I noticed > > some ports open that I felt shouldn't be. I would like to know how to > close > > them. > > > > I have already taken out all the needed info from inetd.conf, like finger, > > but the finger port is listening. It won't give info, but it is listening. > > Others are listening too. Your help is appreciated. > > Have you hup'd inetd? As far as the rest of the ports you're asking > about, how exactly are we to know what they are if you don't tell > us which ports? > > -Alfred > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga atabraga@iqm.unicamp.br http://www.iqm.unicamp.br To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message