Arr.. indeed. I didn't think to try shutting that down and seeing the
effect. Isn't it funny to see that adding 2+2 still does come to 4!
Thanks guys.
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Perry J. Blalock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 1:43 AM
Subject: Re: Anyone know what ircd is?
Well needless to say that as long as you're running sentry, you'll have to
live with this...but that's a good thing :-)
> Yep, I sure am.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Perry J. Blalock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 12:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Anyone know what ircd is?
> Are you running port sentry (A.K.A. abacus) on your
> machine? If so, it will
> "listen" on most all the well know ports.
>> Hey,
>>> ircd = internet really chat daemon. if you don't know
>>> what ircd
>>> is.. short answer: the reason for the existence of all
>>> of those "chat
>>> room" things you hear about everywhere. It's been around
>>> for over 10
>>> years. Check out BitchX or XChat. You actually have to
>>> download the code
>>> for an ircd server and screw around with it
>>> (configuration, etc) for a
>>> long time before it's very usable.. you don't have an
>>> ircd on your system
>>> unless someone put it there.. netstat just shows
>>> addresses/ports.. so
>>> something is running on port 6667 (ircd default port)
>>> which could be ircd
>>> or something else that happened to get 6667 as an
>>> ephemeral port.
>> Yeah I realized about 30 mins after hitting 'send' what
>> it was.. I new it
>> but couldn't recall it (I that's what 16 hours in front
>> of
>> your machine will
>> do to you!).
>> What I eventually found was that the ircd isn't running
>> (and isn't
>> installed). What appears to be happening is if you telnet
>> into port 'ircd'
>> you end up at the 'telnet' port. So I guess what I
>> 'thought' I was reading
>> in a netstat -a wasn't what I was really reading.
>> So when you see this:
>> tcp 0 0 *:ircd *:*
>> LISTEN
>> It doesn't actually mean something is sitting on the back
>> of it I guess.
>> So next question. How do you stop the system being in
>> LISTEN mode on many of
>> these other ports?? It seems to me I can add them add the
>> my IPCHAINS DENY
>> but why would they be in listen mode in the first place?
>> Chris
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