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On Tuesday 02 August 2005 00:17, David Bell wrote: > Have just tried <nmap 127.0.0.1> with the the following result. Am using an > eth0 NAT router. However: > > a. I'm none the wiser :-0) > b. What does it all mean and can I sleep safely tonight? > Well hopefully you didn't loose too much sleep over it :-) You are behind a nat router? (Ie you connect to the internet through eth0 to a router which physicaly connects to the internet) in this case this offerers a reasonable defence against incomming traffic as the big bad internet cannot see your PC directly, *unless* you have port forwarding or DMZ's etc enabled which gives between restricted to full access depending on settings. As you are on 127.0.0.1 you can find out more about active (tcp and udp) servers by issuing (as root) :- netstat -l -p -t -u this will show you the PID and the process name of the active server. The port numbers are shown by name and cross reference them with /etc/services to look up the port numbers. -- Robin Cornelius --------------------------------------------------- robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.cornelius.demon.co.uk http://sourceforge.net/projects/rt2400 GPG Key ID: 0x729A79A23B7EE764 http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x729A79A23B7EE764
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