the "silly" question was not what service runs on a port. we all know that information is readily available in /etc/services. the question was about the bug in the service that made it vulnerable to an exploit. jmb >There's a file called /etc/services that has the answers to all these silly >questions. Try looking this stuff up, people. > >llama:~$ grep 443 /etc/services >https 443/tcp # MCom >https 443/udp # MCom > >Duh.