[arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Partha Chowdhury
Hallo to everyone on the list. It is my first message in a while. I have recently changed my internet provider as i have moved. My previous provider was a DSL provider and the current one is the local cable operator.Now with current provider port 80 is shown open in every port scan test , all

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.03.2011 10:36, schrieb Partha Chowdhury: I have recently changed my internet provider as i have moved. My previous provider was a DSL provider and the current one is the local cable operator.Now with current provider port 80 is shown open in every port scan test , all other ports being

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 14:06 +0530, Partha Chowdhury wrote: Now with current provider port 80 is shown open in every port scan test This is usually caused by a transparent proxy. When nmap hits port 80, it will get redirected to the proxy server. Try doing an nmap -sV and you'll see what

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Simon Perry
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:06:48 +0530, Partha Chowdhury wrote: Output from lsof: sudo /bin/lsof -i COMMANDPID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME pdnsd 1207 nobody4u IPv4 2434 TCP localhost:domain (LISTEN) pdnsd 1207 nobody5u IPv4 2435 UDP

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On 30/03/11 14:16, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 30.03.2011 10:36, schrieb Partha Chowdhury: sudo /sbin/iptables-save # Generated by iptables-save v1.4.7 on Wed Mar 30 13:59:44 2011 *filter :INPUT DROP [2844:282816] :FORWARD DROP [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [:990098] -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A INPUT

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 15:45 +0530, Partha Chowdhury wrote: So it seems my ISP is running squid version 3.2.0.4-20110203 in transparent mode , just like you said. Interestingly when connecting to random ip addresses on port 80, the error page returned is quite different from normal ones.

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Simon Perry
I give up trying to understand this. Initially you were complaining about port 80 being open on your host, you gave us a list of open ports - not an nmap of another host. So now a transparent proxy is the concern? On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:45:18 +0530, Partha Chowdhury wrote: nmap -sV

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On 30/03/11 15:58, Jan de Groot wrote: The threat here is that your ISP will log every page visit you do and also has the ability to block certain websites. The only thing you can do is setting up a tunnel or using a different proxyserver that you trust. Doesn't every ISP keeps logs of what

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.03.2011 12:15, schrieb Partha Chowdhury: Well I picked this configuration from Red Hat training books, except for port 54215 which I open for bit torrent. What do you suggest about the ideal iptables configuration for basic desktop user - This comes with our iptables package: $ cat

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.03.2011 12:48, schrieb Partha Chowdhury: The threat here is that your ISP will log every page visit you do and also has the ability to block certain websites. Doesn't every ISP keeps logs of what sites its customers are visiting for a certain amount of time ? If you live in China, yes.

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Simon Perry
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:18:47 +0530, Partha Chowdhury wrote: initially I wanted to know why port 80 is shown open on my machine and i gave the lsof output to show that no service was listening to port 80 on my machine. The nmap output of the ip - that is my public ip at the moment ( got that by

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Jakob Gruber
On 03/30/2011 11:04 AM, Simon Perry wrote: I think you're confused. That's essentially a netstat, I can't see where you have 80 open on your IP of 172.16.37.164. It just shows you have a connection *to* port 80 to an Akamai host (a common provider of localised content used by many

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Simon Perry
On 30/03/11, Jakob Gruber wrote: | Off topic, but your mails always break list threads. Please fix your | client to make reading these lists easier for everyone :) Am I doing it right? :) (using mutt v Roundcube) -- Simon Perry (aka Pezz) [ s a n x i o n . n e t ]

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Jakob Gruber
On 03/30/2011 02:51 PM, Simon Perry wrote: On 30/03/11, Jakob Gruber wrote: | Off topic, but your mails always break list threads. Please fix your | client to make reading these lists easier for everyone :) Am I doing it right? :) (using mutt v Roundcube) Perfect, thanks.

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Richard Schütz
On 30/03/11 16:40, Richard Schütz wrote: The output of ip addr show would be interesting. here is the output: ip addr show 1: lo: LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo 2: eth0:

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On 30/03/11 14:20, Jan de Groot wrote: This is usually caused by a transparent proxy. When nmap hits port 80, it will get redirected to the proxy server. Try doing an nmap -sV and you'll see what software is running on the proxyserver. While googling for ways of detecting transparent proxy

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-03-30 12:57:45 +0200: Am 30.03.2011 12:48, schrieb Partha Chowdhury: The threat here is that your ISP will log every page visit you do and also has the ability to block certain websites. Doesn't every ISP keeps logs of what sites its

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 17:27 +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote: If you live in a civilized country in Europe data retention either is already in place or will be rather soon. The US might have a different approach but I doubt the net result is much different. Those regulations are about email

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On 30/03/11 19:38, Thomas Bächler wrote: You cannot hide yourself on the internet. If you were offline, the next router would reply that your machine is unreachable. By not answering, you not only tell the attacker that you are online, you also tell him that you don't know shit about

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Jan de Groot's message of 2011-03-30 17:52:00 +0200: On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 17:27 +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote: If you live in a civilized country in Europe data retention either is already in place or will be rather soon. The US might have a different approach but I doubt

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.03.2011 18:22, schrieb Philipp Überbacher: I doubt that: The Directive as adopted covers fixed telephony, mobile telephony, Internet access, Internet email and Internet telephony. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention#European_Union It only covers connection data