Re: port 16001 and 111
Specifically, port 16001 is ESD (ESound) IIRC..
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 10:55, Giacomo Mulas wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Jussi Ekholm wrote:
>
> > So, what would try to connect to my system's port 16001 and 111 from
> > within my own system? Should I be concerned? Should I expect the worst?
>
> port 16001 means that you are running gnome, and is perfectly normal. Port
> 111 is the portmapper, which means that there is a client connecting to an
> RPC based service on your computer, i.e. NIS, whatever like that. As an
> example, there are a few encrypted file systems which make use of NFS
> on localhost, like CFS and SFS. Check it out. However, by the looks of it
> it does not seem anything dangerous.
>
> Bye
> Giacomo
>
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