Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

["Marlier, Ian" <ian.marlier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Marshall [mailto:bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 11:57 AM
> To: SLE
> Subject: Re: [SLE] worrying port scan
> >
> > Hi and thanks but:
> >
> > Neither 21 nor 23 are present in the list and I have no ftp server
> running
> > nor installed on the system. I avoit telnet altogether.
> 
> Check with Yast -->  network services
> 
> ftp and telnet are handled by xinetd  which starts those (and other)
> services
> when there is a request.

Good advice...

In the OPs case, though, those services aren't active in xinetd.  Those
ports still would have shown as LISTEN in the netstat -- xinted listens
on those ports, takes the connections, and hands the stream off to the
server proc if it passes the normal wrappers checks.