Funny story about mysteriously open port 21

2010-03-09 Thread Sir Conquer
As I was testing new iptables rules on my remote Lenny server, port 21 kept coming up as open, yet nothing was listening on it (according to netstat and lsof). At which point I'm panicking and wondering whether I've been owned! The panic had productive side-effects, as I discovered several

Re: Funny story about mysteriously open port 21

2010-03-09 Thread Sven Hartge
On 09.03.2010 09:21, Sir Conquer wrote: As I was testing new iptables rules on my remote Lenny server, port 21 kept coming up as open, yet nothing was listening on it (according to netstat and lsof). At which point I'm panicking and wondering whether I've been owned! The panic had productive