From owner-freebsd-security Mon Oct 8 19:43:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from pineapple.theshop.net (pineapple.theshop.net [208.128.7.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BCE537B405 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 19:43:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsdprophet.org (cherry46.theshop.net [63.67.33.111]) by pineapple.theshop.net (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id f992l16R094245; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 21:47:02 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3BC26492.7080302@bsdprophet.org> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 21:44:34 -0500 From: Scott Corey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010922 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Charlie C.L. King" Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: any idea on udp port 8? (fwd) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org port 8 for tcp and udp are unassigned here is a good site for more info: http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers Scott Charlie C.L. King wrote: >Hello, everybody: > I'm a newbie adm. in bsd and managing my own box. Does any one >have any idea what service runs on udp port 8? I'm currently running >portsentry on my freebsd box, and recently got lots of attack alerts >on udp port 8; it goes like this: > >Oct 7 16:09:17 ncumis portsentry[6306]: attackalert: Connect from host: >hostname/ip_address to UDP port: 8 >Oct 5 17:45:57 ncumis portsentry[6306]: attackalert: Connect from host: >hostname/ip_address to UDP port: 8 > > I've tried to look into the /etc/services file under red-hat >linux and my freebsd, neither of which is it recorded. Thus still i've got >no idea about what this means. > Any response or suggestion would be appreciated. > >-- >With regards >Lord Ouch > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message