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Date:      Fri, 25 Apr 1997 00:55:33 -0700
From:      John-Mark Gurney <jmg@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
To:        joed@ksu.edu
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What's on Port 1024?
Message-ID:  <19970425005533.56693@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
In-Reply-To: <199704250416.XAA00719@fox>; from joed@ksu.edu on Thu, Apr 24, 1997 at 11:16:01PM -0500
References:  <199704250416.XAA00719@fox>

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joed@ksu.edu scribbled this message on Apr 24:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm currently in the proccess of trying to lock down a FreeBSD workstation
> as a firewall, and noticed that my FreeBSD machine is listening to port 
> 1024.  I'm fairly stumped as to what this might be..  According to the 
> port number database (http://www.sockets.com/services.htm) 1024 is 
> reserved.
> 
> Any thought as to what's listening to this port?  

try: lsof | grep 1024
on my machine it returns a line like:
xdm         214     root    5u  inet   0xf17bbc00        0t0        TCP *:1024

so it looks like the process is xdm....

ttyl..

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  John-Mark
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