On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Sean Kelleher wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've got errors that are continually popping up to STDERR about a > packet being rejected by my firewall, bound for port 65535. this > behaviour itself is normal -- my firewall should reject this packet -- > but i'd like to know what service this packet hopes to reach. i've > checked the relevant files (AFAIK -- /etc/services, /etc/inetd.conf), > but don't see anything that applies. > > anyone know where i could look to find out which service this is? >
Well, variations of the 'netstat' command will provide, among other things, a list of the open sockets. 'netstat -p' shows the process PID and name of the program with each open socket.
