On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 03:45:50PM +0100, Ivan Ivanovic wrote:
> On my Slink placed on Inernet often appears auth port connection attempts from various sites...
> What (common) application needs this port?
The auth port provides a facility for a remote machine to identify who's
on your end of a TCP connection. Many servers collect and log this
information to help provide an audit trail.
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