-> What is an echo connection? -> I have never seen this type of connection in my logs, and I seem to be getting -> them from root servers. Is this a bad thing?
/etc/services: echo 7/tcp echo 7/udp /etc/inetd.conf: echo stream tcp nowait root internal echo dgram udp wait root internal just try it... telnet localhost echo and type "hello" echo protocol sends back everything it gets. you probably should block that port for security reasons. there are tcp ping programs which use port echo but i don't see any reason to have it opened. -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at Telenor Internet Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz "One World. One Web. One Program." - Microsoft promotional advertisement "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" - Adolf Hitler
