Thanks to everyone that replied.
It turns out that the port is closed.
I ran strobe against the machine several times and it returned all ports closed.
I tried to telnet to it, and could not connect.
Looks like a false positive, and I (being way to paranoid) reacted too quickly.
Thanks everyone
Dany Allard
Matthew Micene wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 February 2001 12:08 pm, dany allard wrote:
> > 31337/tcp filtered Elite
>
> The fact that nmap reported this port as filtered is also significant.
> From the nmap man page:
> 'Filtered means that a firewall, filter, or other network obstacle is
> covering the port and preventing nmap from determining whether the port
> is open.'
> This may then be a false positive. Check the output of netstat -a --inet
> (from a trusted binary if you are really worried) to see what processes
> have sockets open and listening to network ports.
>
> More than likely nmap received a specific kind of non-response when it hit
> this port that allowed it to identify a packet filter in place.
>
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