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Date:      Wed, 03 Jan 2001 00:23:51 -0800
From:      Lawrence Sica <larry@interactivate.com>
To:        Alex Popa <razor-bsd-security@ldc.ro>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Connections to UDP port 512
Message-ID:  <3A52E197.8B9829C5@interactivate.com>
References:  <20010103101253.A10140@ldc.ro>

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Alex Popa wrote:

> Any ideas as of what might be generating a few of these:
>

grep 512 /etc/services

exec            512/tcp    #remote process execution;
biff            512/udp    comsat       #used by mail system to notify
users

it's generated by something trying to see if you have mail, im guessing
you have inetd turned off?


the /etc/services file usually has a good list of what is what based on
port number.

--Larry



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