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Re: who owns the ports?



On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 05:12:48PM -0500, Matthias G. Imhof wrote:
> Running lsof as root or various versions of netstat showed that portsentry owns
> these ports :-)

This is quite true. I remember now that I had the same issue come up when I
set up portsentry. If you run it in -tcp and/or -udp mode, it will appear
that these ports are listening. However if you switch to advanced mode
(-atcp and/or -audp), these ports will not respond.

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