From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 29 14:12: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from adsl-63-194-112-53.dsl.snlo01.pacbell.net (adsl-63-194-112-53.dsl.snlo01.pacbell.net [63.194.112.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 074E137C0EC for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:11:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@info-logix.com) Received: (qmail 17966 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2000 21:16:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ibix) (192.168.1.3) by adsl-63-194-112-53.dsl.snlo01.pacbell.net with SMTP; 29 Jun 2000 21:16:16 -0000 From: "Hank Wethington" To: "Jan Grant" Cc: "BSD" Subject: RE: open ports question Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:10:54 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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