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
