Given that they are scanning for standard servers, at standard ports,
does this mean that you could set up services for personal use at
alternative ports? For example, many people run httpd (www) at 8080
rather than the standard port 80 for some application they want to
run as a normal user rather than root. I'm not an expert on port
scanning, though ... do the port scanners just try normal
"well-known" ports, or do they scan the port address space?
--Michal
>I still wonder what they call a "server", though, but I guess they would call
>anything that runs the basic net service daemons (ftp, www, telnetd,
>mail, news) a
>"server". From the desktop market, that makes sense, but from the un*x world,
>it's a little silly.
>
>--Mike
