On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 03:45:50PM +0100, Ivan Ivanovic wrote: > On my Slink placed on Inernet often appears auth port connection attempts > from various sites... > What (common) application needs this port?
The auth port provides a facility for a remote machine to identify who's on your end of a TCP connection. Many servers collect and log this information to help provide an audit trail. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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