Re: who owns the ports?

[Physicman <cb@physicman.net>]

Hi,

netstat is your friend, especially the -p option ;-)

Regards,

Chris

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



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