Well, finger is probably running through inetd... Either that or you
are running that scanner detecter package that binds to every port
known in the universe.
Aaron
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Matthias G. Imhof wrote:
> Performing strobe or nmap on my system, I get, e.g., the following list:
>
> 79/tcp open finger
> 119/tcp open nntp
> 143/tcp open imap2
> 540/tcp open uucp
> 6667/tcp open irc
> 12345/tcp open NetBus
> 12346/tcp open NetBus
> 31337/tcp open Elite
>
> However, lsof -i tcp:79 yields nothing. Similarly with the others.
> In addition, there should be no irc running, finger is commented from the
> inetd.conf, and so on.
>
> Why do these ports respond to strobe or nmap? Which process controlls them?
>
> Matthias
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