On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:50:40AM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > Greetings, > > I do not have apache installed, nmap localhost does not show http being open, > however, if I go to a friends machine and nmap my ip it shows http being > open. Also grc.com's port probe shows http being open. Thing is I just don't > see how this is possible considering I'm running iptables and the default > policy is drop. Anyone have any ideas what could be sneaking and letting port > 80 open?
just guessing... inetd (or xinetd) may be listening to various ports whether you have services to run on them or not. check your /etc/*inetd.conf setup and /etc/init.d/*inetd reload after tweaking (if this is the problem)... hth -- things are more like they used to be than they are now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.dontUthink.com/
