From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 15 21:24:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from giroc.albury.net.au (giroc.albury.NET.AU [203.15.244.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B23A37B479 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 21:24:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nicks@localhost) by giroc.albury.net.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAG5Nub96474; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:23:56 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:23:56 +1100 From: Nick Slager To: Dave Lajoie Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: open ports Message-ID: <20001116162355.E50113@albury.net.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from dave@ncia.net on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:13:05AM -0500 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Dave Lajoie (dave@ncia.net): > I've noticed a couple of odd services when I run nmap on my BSD > sever running 4.1 called _submission_ and _hermes_? (see below) can anyone > tell me if this is normal, and if not how do I close the ports to avoid > this? Please cc my mail address as I am not on the list at this time. > Thanks for your help in advance. Port 587 is the Message Submission Agent port, which sendmail uses. There's plenty of info on MSA at http://www.sendmail.org, including how to disable it. I'm not sure what hermes is; perhaps try telnetting to it? Nick -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message