From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 29 14: 2:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C8137BB5F for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:02:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 22:02:45 +0100 Received: from localhost (cmjg@localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA19139; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 22:02:45 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 22:02:44 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant To: Hank Wethington Cc: BSD Subject: RE: open ports question In-Reply-To: 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 On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, 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. ... > 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. Have you looked at the output of sockstat? -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Generalisation is never appropriate. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message