Are you running port sentry (A.K.A. abacus) on your machine? If so, it will "listen"
on most all the well know ports.
> 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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