You can take a look at http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
If you are suspicious about any port, do little more research by any packet capture utiity, like ngrep. I guess this will help you to move forward. Share with us, if you find any interesting story. Mohammad --- In [email protected], Enayetur RAHEEM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Experts: > > When I do "nmap" to localhost, I get the following response: > > Starting nmap 3.81 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-08-04 20:10 BDT > Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): > (The 1653 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) > PORT STATE SERVICE > 37/tcp open time > 80/tcp open http > 111/tcp open rpcbind > 113/tcp open auth > 139/tcp open netbios-ssn > 445/tcp open microsoft-ds > 621/tcp open unknown > 685/tcp open unknown > 711/tcp open unknown > 725/tcp open unknown > > A trial and error method shows that when I run NIS with rc.nfsd, > rc.yp, on this machine, I get these "unknown" tcp ports open. I was > wondering, why they are "unknown" and/or is there a way to stop them > (if they are vulnerable). > > Other services I run includes: SAMBA, httpd, SSHD. My OS is Slackware 10.1 > > Thanks. > > -- > Enayetur RAHEEM To unsubscribe send a blank mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bdlug/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
