Michael O'Keefe wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] michael]# telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 80 >> Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx... >> telnet: connect to address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: Connection refused >> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused > > If nothing is listening, you can't telnet to it > I assume someone told you to do that becoz you got the "Address already > in use" error message, and they wanted to verify that something was > "stealing" that IP/port combination ?
Yes (answering for BG), and same goes for my nmap test. Thanks for explaining the intent. As further explanation, a common hack strategy is to replace diagnostic tools with the attacker's custom versions that hide evidence of intrusion. > >> My question is How do you bind Ip address to a host? > > if by "bind" you mean configure, it seems you've done that already > > make sure your IP address is in your /etc/hosts for your hostname and > that your 'hosts' entry in your etc/nsswitch.conf has 'files' before 'dns' > Good advice, but ordinarily even something as simple as 127.0.0.1 localhost works, until/unless you go about customizing httpd.conf a lot. Likewise the stock nsswitch.conf contents, generally work without diddling. Besides (as I recall) the error message is different when there's a hostname problem. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
