Quoting jayhen <jayhen@wanadoo.nl>:

What are these ports and how can they be disabled? Cannot find them in inetd.conf

My localhost name is not "talarian"

udp 0 0 *:snmp *:* udp 0 0 *:bootps *:*

You appear to be running a DHCP server.

udp 0 0 linux.local:netbios-dgm *:* udp 0 0 linux.local:netbios-ns *:* udp 0 0 *:netbios-dgm *:* udp 0 0 *:netbios-ns *:*

These are Samba.

udp 0 0 *:pftp *:* udp 0 0 *:859 *:* udp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:*

A number of things use this port, NFS, rlogin, rsh, rcp.

tcp 0 0 localho:talarian-mcast3 *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 localho:talarian-mcast2 *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 5dyn44.a:mapper-ws_ethd pccws10.pcconn:www-http ESTABLISHED

This is you surfing the Web.

tcp 0 0 *:blackjack *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:6000 *:* LISTEN

This is the X server. You can stop it listening on TCP/IP by starting with startx -- -nolisten tcp.

tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN

The MySQL database.

tcp 0 0 *:netbios-ssn *:* LISTEN

Samba again.

tcp 0 0 *:http-rman *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:pop3 *:* LISTEN

You are running a POP3 server.

tcp 0 0 *:exec *:* LISTEN

Part of the Sun utilities, IIRC.

tcp 0 0 *:telnet *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:www-http *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:* LISTEN

Telnet server, FTP server, Web server, and Sun RPC.

raw 0 0 *:tcp *:* 7

You appear to have installed and started just about every server there is. You can disable most of them in /etc/rc.config. You will need to reboot for this to take effect. You can stop most of them with rcsmb stop rcmysql stop .... Or go to /etc/rc.d and do the equivalent: ./smb stop ./mysql stop ... Then go read RTFM and other docs on networking, security, etc. -- I don't do Windows and I don't come to work before nine. -- Johnny Paycheck