From owner-freebsd-security Tue Mar 19 8:31:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0B6937B400 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:31:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 8456F5346; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:31:41 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Julian Stacey" Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports 1021 1022 1023 & 587 ? References: <200203191511.g2JFBbG55810@jhs.muc.de> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 19 Mar 2002 17:31:40 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200203191511.g2JFBbG55810@jhs.muc.de> Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 "Julian Stacey" writes: > On a 4.5-RELEASE firewall ports 1021 1022 1023 are shown open by > /usr/ports/security/portscanner, but not listed in /etc/services. > > Are they daemons doing auto decrement allocation from 1024 ? > ( I'm using ipfw firewall, not using diverts (yet), not using X server, > am using various other daemons inc. nfs amd lpd timed whod etc) The portmapper allocates ports for NFS and other RPC services starting at 1023 and counting downwards. Use 'rpcinfo -p' to get a list of active RPC services and their port allocations. Why on earth are you running nfs, amd and lpd on a firewall? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message