Re: Unknown open ports

[Seth Vidal <skvidal@phy.duke.edu>]

> I've just run a portscan to my computer that is connected to the internet
> (permanently) and there were a few ports open of which I don't know what
> they are for (all ports under 1024) and neither did the portscanner, these
> are the ports: 686 698 708
> If I use telnet to go to one of those ports, the connection isn't closed
> by the remote host (only after I've typed a few things and pressed enter a
> few times).
> 
> Anybody got any ideas on what these ports are for?

try rpcinfo -p
from the machine

see if those ports popup there.

-sv