Re: All these open ports

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@wanadoo.fr>]

listcomm@ml1.net wrote:
> > I've just noticed that my debian testing open many ports by default:
> >
> > tcp        0      0 *:dict                  *:*                     LISTEN    
> > tcp        0      0 *:time                  *:*                     LISTEN    
> > tcp        0      0 *:discard               *:*                     LISTEN    
> > tcp        0      0 *:682                   *:*                     LISTEN 
>
>
> I'm curious which utility produced that listing; I haven't seen "lsof"
> produce that - ?
>
>
> > Buy a firewall or set up iptables.
>
>
> You can just load the Firestarter package; it will allow you to block
> ports (via a generated iptables script).

There are other available packages:
I use FireHOL

>