Tom,
Port 8080 is scanned by the RingZero reconnaissance tool, and receives quite a
lot of scans on our firewall.
See http://www.nipc.gov/nipc/ringzero.htm
Having a service open on that port might attract some unwelcome attention from
crackers looking for a poorly secured proxy server.
Jim Eckford
Tom Lewandowski wrote:
> Hello
> The programmers in my company have asked me to open port 8080 plus the range
> of ports from 8751 through 8770 from the Internet to one of their Linux boxs
> for testing. What are some of the hazzards I should be concerned with?
> Thanks for your response.
>
> Tom
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