Hey,

> ircd = internet really chat daemon. if you don't know what ircd
> is..  short answer: the reason for the existence of all of those "chat
> room" things you hear about everywhere. It's been around for over 10
> years. Check out BitchX or XChat. You actually have to download the code
> for an ircd server and screw around with it (configuration, etc) for a
> long time before it's very usable.. you don't have an ircd on your system
> unless someone put it there.. netstat just shows addresses/ports.. so
> something is running on port 6667 (ircd default port) which could be ircd
> or something else that happened to get 6667 as an ephemeral port.

Yeah  I realized about 30 mins after hitting 'send' what it was.. I new it
but couldn't recall it (I that's what 16 hours in front of your machine will
do to you!).

What I eventually found was that the ircd isn't running (and isn't
installed). What appears to be happening is if you telnet into port 'ircd'
you end up at the 'telnet' port. So I guess what I 'thought' I was reading
in a netstat -a wasn't what I was really reading.

So when you see this:

tcp        0      0 *:ircd                  *:*                     LISTEN

It doesn't actually mean something is sitting on the back of it I guess.

So next question. How do you stop the system being in LISTEN mode on many of
these other ports?? It seems to me I can add them add the my IPCHAINS DENY
but why would they be in listen mode in the first place?

Chris



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