From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 1 20:52:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98D0914F04 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 20:52:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA25757; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 20:52:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37A515F7.47284B51@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 20:52:23 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Howe Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: no well-known ports? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Howe wrote: > > i'm analyzing some ppp tcp/ip logs, and i see some > source/destination pairs without any well known ports > (from an ftp to ftp.cdrom.com) intermixed with the > normal ftp sequences ... > > what does this mean, and should they be permitted? > if so, how? since none of the ports are well known? > > ie: > > 111.111.111.111:1464 -> 222.222.222.222:6345 According to http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/port-numbers: msl_lmd 1464/tcp MSL License Manager msl_lmd 1464/udp MSL License Manager 6345 is in all likelihood simply the random port on the local machine that service connected to. However it's almost impossible to tell anything more without the real IP numbers, and I have no idea what ftp.cdrom.com has to do with your example. Good luck, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message