Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Hi, > > playing around with netcat, I tried out the example fom its README, > the command 'echo QUIT | nc -v -w 5 target 20-250 500-600 5990-7000', > which should "inform you about a target's various well-known TCP servers", > and I took as my 'target' 'localhost' (completely stand-alone PC). > > Surprisingly there showed up among other things even an ftp-server > (output: "wabe.in-bonn.de [127.0.0.1] 21 (ftp) open > 220 wabe.in-bonn.de FTP server (Version 6.2/OpenBSD/Linux-0.10) ready.") >
The netbase package has a ftp server which will be installed on your system.Don't worry, because it does not take up memory, it is started from inetd on request. If you don't want this, just comment it out in /etc/inetd.conf. > It's surpring because I never installed any ftp-server on my system. The > only servers I installed internally are boa (webserver) and leafnode (news). > Can anybody explain this message? I would be interested to know how to disable > this ftp-server -- I only have a dialup ppp-connection to the net five-six > times a week. > > The other strange thing was an unknown service on port 6000: > "wabe.in-bonn.de [127.0.0.1] 6000 (?) open" > What does this one mean? > Don't know about this, sorry. > Thanks in advance > joachim Joop [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
