Re: Nmap shows port 21 is open with no ftp daemon installed.

2009-06-08 Thread John Hasler
Rod writes: > Anyway I just got another lead on his situation. I learned from my > seniors from there past experience this may had been a bug in the Cisco > IOS version that was between the user and the server. You need to run nmap from the same LAN as the subject machine. -- John Hasler -- To

Re: Nmap shows port 21 is open with no ftp daemon installed.

2009-06-08 Thread Rod James Bio
John Hasler wrote: Does nmap claim there is actually something listening on port 21 or is it that the port is simply not "stealthed"? Post the actual nmap output. Some security sites (such as www.grc.com) make the (IMHO bogus) claim that not having all ports "stealthed" is a security risk. You

Re: Nmap shows port 21 is open with no ftp daemon installed.

2009-06-08 Thread John Hasler
Does nmap claim there is actually something listening on port 21 or is it that the port is simply not "stealthed"? Post the actual nmap output. Some security sites (such as www.grc.com) make the (IMHO bogus) claim that not having all ports "stealthed" is a security risk. Your friend may have seen

Re: Nmap shows port 21 is open with no ftp daemon installed.

2009-06-08 Thread Rod James Bio
Well I did some test on my own port tcp 443 does show on my machine by nmapping(is this a valid verb?hehe) from other network but when I do this in the same network it doesnt show at all. netstat does not show anything. Anyway thanks for the suggestion. --Rod James Richard Hector wrote: On

Re: Nmap shows port 21 is open with no ftp daemon installed.

2009-06-08 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 16:23 +0800, Rod James Bio wrote: > Hi, I've been wondering about my friends case. Seems that when he > nmapped his machine port 21 is open, but there is no ftp daemon > installed. He tried > "lsof -i :21" > but it did not return anything. He also tried > "netstat -an | grep

Re: Nmap shows port 21 is open with no ftp daemon installed.

2009-06-08 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Rod James Bio wrote: Hi, I've been wondering about my friends case. Seems that when he nmapped his machine port 21 is open, but there is no ftp daemon installed. He tried "lsof -i :21" but it did not return anything. He also tried "netstat -an | grep 21" also nothing. So he asked other people a

Nmap shows port 21 is open with no ftp daemon installed.

2009-06-08 Thread Rod James Bio
Hi, I've been wondering about my friends case. Seems that when he nmapped his machine port 21 is open, but there is no ftp daemon installed. He tried "lsof -i :21" but it did not return anything. He also tried "netstat -an | grep 21" also nothing. So he asked other people and they told him that