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From: Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: port 389
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:38:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401230838.05694.Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401230827.13331.mrakotom@free.fr>

On Friday 23 January 2004 7:27 am, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:

> Hello ,
> I asked for some frineds of mine to scan mly host , and they all find my
> 389 port opened . here is the report , for those who understand french :
> http://www.tsenagasy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=33992#33992
>
> i dont understand what's happening :
>
> netstat | grep 389
> gives nothing , and
> this is my set of rules .
> would you help me to see , what is wrong ? or is the 389 just an "answer"
> port ?

TCP port 389 is used for LDAP.

(There is no such thing as an "answer" port.   Services answer from whatever 
port they listen on.)

I suspect your ISP has some sort of transparent authentication proxy server 
set up and that it is this which your friends are finding.

Regards,

Antony.

-- 
I want to build a machine that will be proud of me.

 - Danny Hillis, creator of The Connection Machine

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-23  8:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-23  7:27 port 389 Rakotomandimby Mihamina
2004-01-23  8:38 ` Antony Stone [this message]
2004-01-23 12:36   ` Rakotomandimby Mihamina
2004-01-24  9:57     ` Arnt Karlsen

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