Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 16:56:48 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jamie Lawrence <jal@42is.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netstat reporting foreign address as *.* Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971117165545.11123E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <v03102800b09680025dd3@[205.217.47.88]>
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On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Jamie Lawrence wrote:
> What does the final line from this snipped netstat output
> indicate? I'd never seen it before today.
>
> colonel: {316} netstat
> Active Internet connections
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address (state)
> tcp 0 0 www.findelvis.co.http kenton-cs-2.dial.1215 ESTABLISHED
> tcp 0 80 205.217.47.82.telnet vegas.2050 ESTABLISHED
> tcp 0 0 colonel.2257 *.* LISTEN
> [...] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It means that a daemon is running, listening on port 2257 for incoming
connections. Note the state. Someone is probably running a daemon for
some reason; check out ps -ax and look for unusual programs.
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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