Re: firewall protocols

[Alexander Samad <alex@samad.com.au>]

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On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 07:29:24PM -0400, R. DuFresne wrote:
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> On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Alexander Samad wrote:
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> >can always try a netstat -pane | grep 23 to see what is using/listening
> >on port 23
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> And that will work, as long as telnetd is presently being used or used 
> very recently.  Remember inetd, being the super server launches all it 
> cares for as they are asked for...they run for the time required and then 
> go sleep, until inetd get a request to relaunch one of the daemons it 
> manages...

should you still see a listen on port 23 ? the process will be inetd
instead of telnetd - which is why I grepped for 23 and not telentd

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> Thanks,
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> Ron DuFresne
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