Bug 21588 - please declare undeclared ports in /etc/services
Summary: please declare undeclared ports in /etc/services
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: setup
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Dale Lovelace
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-12-01 15:45 UTC by Joe Harrington
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:17 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2000-12-01 16:35:54 UTC
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Description Joe Harrington 2000-12-01 15:45:35 UTC
Recently there was a (n erroneous) report of hacking on my machine.  In
checking for activity, I found ports 1024 and 1032 in use.  These turned
out to be gnome-session and gnome-name-service, but this wasn't declared in
/etc/services.  It took a while to figure out what was active on those
ports, as telnetting to them gave binary garbage or nothing.  Please
declare the use of ports in /etc/services.  In trying to figure out what
these were, I found a thread on a security mailing list wondering what they
were as well, though they didn't figure it out.

Thanks,

--jh--

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2000-12-01 16:35:51 UTC
Reassigning to the package containing /etc/services. I'm not sure /etc/services
normally contains user apps that open ports though, perhaps it's just systemwide
services.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2000-12-01 16:43:25 UTC
/etc/services is for standard registered ports (ftp, ssh, and the like.)

The things you mention like gnome-name-service are just allocated to the
first available port. Hence, you can't really list any defined ports for
them.


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