Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:10:54 -0700 From: "Hank Wethington" <bsd@info-logix.com> To: "Jan Grant" <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: "BSD" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: open ports question Message-ID: <KFEIIDCJNHBCGLAFNMJIGEJBCGAA.bsd@info-logix.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GHP.4.21.0006292201580.18825-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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AHHHA, portsentry is fooling me. It is "listening" on those ports. When I turn it off... presto, only what I think should be open. Thanks for your help Hank -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jan Grant Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 2:03 PM To: Hank Wethington Cc: BSD Subject: RE: open ports question 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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