On Monday 13 December 2010 13:08:18 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Eeek!! > > Just fooling around with some software on my laptop, I found that my Gentoo > desktop has an even dozen open inet ports with something listening to them, > in addition to the ones I would expect (25, 80 and so on). > They are all in the range 32768-60000. > > Netstat agrees that they're open but does not disclose which process is > listening. > > Does anybody know how to find this out? > > ++ kevin
let someone from the outside scan your box. That way you get much more reliable results. Like this: http://www.heise.de/security/dienste/Netzwerkcheck-2114.html http://www.heise.de/security/dienste/portscan/test/go.shtml?scanart=1