Jeff D wrote:
It certainly does, Jeff. Thank you.On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, AG wrote:I was going through the hardinfo application and when I got to "IP connections" I noticed the following connections have the "Established" status using TCP and both on port 443 (SSL and HTTPS). One of these connections is to 71.62.0.176 (which doesn't seem to have a listing in the whois database that means anything) and 88.169.124.190 which points to http://www.proxad.net according to whois What applications could I have on my machine that would establish tcp connections with either of these using ssl/https? Also, although I was under the impression that the portmap service was not enabled at boot up, it would appear that it is running in the background. I recall that portmap used to be a security risk, but is this still the case and should I be concerned? Thanks AGOne handy tool to have is lsof. You can use that to see what applications are talking to what IP. For example: lsof -i@71.62.0.176 -n will show you what applications are communicating with the ip. You can also specify certain ports if you like, to trim down the results like so: lsof -i@71.62.0.176:443 or to just see ports: lsof -i:443 also, If you dint need portmap, the best solution is to just disable it. No sense in running unneeded apps. Hth, Jeff AG |