Re: who owns the ports?

[Aaron Dewell <acd@woods.net>]

Well, finger is probably running through inetd...  Either that or you
are running that scanner detecter package that binds to every port 
known in the universe.

Aaron

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Matthias G. Imhof wrote:
> Performing strobe or nmap on my system, I get, e.g., the following list:
> 
> 79/tcp     open        finger                  
> 119/tcp    open        nntp                    
> 143/tcp    open        imap2                   
> 540/tcp    open        uucp                    
> 6667/tcp   open        irc                     
> 12345/tcp  open        NetBus                  
> 12346/tcp  open        NetBus                  
> 31337/tcp  open        Elite                   
> 
> However, lsof -i tcp:79 yields nothing. Similarly with the others.
> In addition, there should be no irc running, finger is commented from the
> inetd.conf, and so on.
> 
> Why do these ports respond to strobe or nmap? Which process controlls them?
> 
> Matthias