Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-07 Thread Vox
This time Jim C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes: > > Arrgh! Half the people I know belong there! ;-) Only half? :) Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-07 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 14:07, Jim C wrote: > Can one check one's self in after misusing "rm -rf"? > ;-) Well then heck none of us would be on the outside. PS about 4 months ago my 2 year old taught himself this command you know the random monkey syndrome. Now I make sure I'm logged out

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-07 Thread Jim C
Can one check one's self in after misusing "rm -rf"? ;-) Jim C wrote: Arrgh! Half the people I know belong there! ;-) Bill Mullen wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 12:45, Vox wrote: There is hope that we can now someday end the (mutual) suffering! http://www.satirewire.com/features/siliconpines/acf.s

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-07 Thread Jim C
Arrgh! Half the people I know belong there! ;-) Bill Mullen wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 12:45, Vox wrote: There is hope that we can now someday end the (mutual) suffering! http://www.satirewire.com/features/siliconpines/acf.shtml ;) (Bit of an old link, but I just tripped over it the other day

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-06 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 G'evenin' all... On Thursday 06 March 2003 09:42 pm, Vox wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: > > Of course the obvious question would be who do you want to exclude and > > how do you want the results of the test skewed... I can write a test to > > exclude

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-06 Thread Vox
This time James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes: > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 09:45, Vox wrote: >> This time Jim C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> becomes daring and writes: >> >> >> IMNSHO, if you don't understand IP,TCP, UDP, you have no business >> >> running a server of any

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-06 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 09:45, Vox wrote: > This time Jim C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > becomes daring and writes: > > >> IMNSHO, if you don't understand IP,TCP, UDP, you have no business > >> running a server of any kind, no matter what Microsoft may have told > >> you. > > > > Gee, thanks for the

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-06 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 20:52, Bill Mullen wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 12:45, Vox wrote: > > > I don't advocate for a MSCE-like test for computer > > users...theoretical tests don't mean a thing, IMNSHO...but let's > > start giving out practical tests to everybody before allowing them > >

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-06 Thread Vox
This time Bill Mullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes: > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 12:45, Vox wrote: > >> I don't advocate for a MSCE-like test for computer >> users...theoretical tests don't mean a thing, IMNSHO...but let's >> start giving out practical tests to everybody before

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-06 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 12:45, Vox wrote: > I don't advocate for a MSCE-like test for computer > users...theoretical tests don't mean a thing, IMNSHO...but let's > start giving out practical tests to everybody before allowing them > to use a computer unsupervised...that'd be paradise :) The

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:58 am, Pierre Fortin wrote: > Try a valid port (lsof -i :80) and note that you may not see ":80" but > ":http"... this is not grep... > HTH Got it. I was using port 28000 'cause it popped into my head (Tribes 2 uses it!). When I used a valid port, it worked fine. (f

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:12 am, Jim C wrote: > Did you try : > > which lsof > > You might not have the executeable. Thanks for the reply. Yep, I do have it. I just wasn't using it on a port that had anything. Port 28000 has nothing on it, so no report. Thats all. :-) --

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-06 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim C wrote on Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 05:37:35PM -0800 : > > Well perhaps you are correct but if you are and it is simple, then why > am I not seeing netbios ports 137 and 138? If they weren't working I > wouldn't be writing this because my Samba-LDA

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-06 Thread Vox
This time Jim C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes: >> IMNSHO, if you don't understand IP,TCP, UDP, you have no business >> running a server of any kind, no matter what Microsoft may have told >> you. > > Gee, thanks for the flame. :-/ It's not a flame, it's a statement of *m

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-06 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 09:09:44 -0500 "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:33 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > lsof -i :port# > > Hmm, I just tried that and I must be doing something wrong. I tried: > > lsof -i :28000 > lsof -i :port28000 > lsof -i :port#2800

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-06 Thread Jim C
Did you try : which lsof You might not have the executeable. Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:33 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: lsof -i :port# Hmm, I just tried that and I must be doing something wrong. I tried: lsof -i :28000 lsof -i :port28000 lsof -i :port#28000 lsof -i :

Re: Replying [was Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?]

2003-03-06 Thread Jim C
Apparently some do and some don't. I get such responses from this list occasionally and if someone replies, getting something in my inbox rather than having it sorted into one of my many list directories can be helpful in finding it. I'm sorry you do not find it so. To my knowledge, this is

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:33 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > lsof -i :port# Hmm, I just tried that and I must be doing something wrong. I tried: lsof -i :28000 lsof -i :port28000 lsof -i :port#28000 lsof -i :port 28000 lsof -i :port# 28000 So...which one is correct? I got various different re

Replying [was Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?]

2003-03-06 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 23:13:33 -0800 Jim C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jim, Can you stop using reply to all? We use a list to keep the discussions out of our regular mail... > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-05 Thread Jim C
IMNSHO, if you don't understand IP,TCP, UDP, you have no business running a server of any kind, no matter what Microsoft may have told you. Gee, thanks for the flame. :-/ Why not? We let people create human beings without training and there is far more risk involved.;-) Truth is that my

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-05 Thread Jim C
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# netstat -l | grep netbios tcp0 0 *:netbios-ssn *:* LISTEN ^^^ ^^ udp0 0 208.152.4.20:netbios-ns *:* udp0 0 enigma.micro:netbios-ns *:* udp0

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-05 Thread Jim C
Because either you have samba running from xinetd or it isn't running at all. Here's the output of netstat -ntupl on my box: [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# service smb status smbd (pid 17966) is running... 16535 (pid ) is running... nmbd (pid 16545) is running... [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# service xine

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-05 Thread Vox
This time Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes: > On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 18:06:04 -0800 Jim C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The truth is that I do not much care for netstat because I feel that it >> is to much functionality crammed into one little command. I've always >>

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 18:06:04 -0800 Jim C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The truth is that I do not much care for netstat because I feel that it > is to much functionality crammed into one little command. I've always > felt that this is a poor way to manage complexity. Even worse is trying to man

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 15:34, Jim C wrote: > I remember asking this question a couple of months ago but I can't > remember the answer, or find the email, to save my life. > > What is a simple but sure way to find out if a specific port is open on > a specific interface? > > > Jim C. > > lsof

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-05 Thread Jim C
The truth is that I do not much care for netstat because I feel that it is to much functionality crammed into one little command. I've always felt that this is a poor way to manage complexity. Example of complexity cut from the much vaunted man pages: SYNOPSIS netstat [address_family_o

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-05 Thread Andrei Raevsky
> I remember asking this question a couple of months ago but I can't > remember the answer, or find the email, to save my life. > > What is a simple but sure way to find out if a specific port is open on > a specific interface? > > > Jim C. Try nmap -p -65535 127.0.0.1 (or whatever IP number is

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-05 Thread Vox
This time Jim C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes: > > Well perhaps you are correct but if you are and it is simple, then why > am I not seeing netbios ports 137 and 138? If they weren't working I > wouldn't be writing this because my Samba-LDAP PDC wouldn't be > functional. Be

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-05 Thread Jim C
OK, well perhaps my previous posting was a little kurt however, see my postings in this thread about the missing ports which netstat is not displaying. Jim C. Todd Lyons wrote: Vox wrote on Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:45:03PM -0600 : Did I mention simple? uhm...nothing is simpler than: netstat -

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-05 Thread Jim C
Well perhaps you are correct but if you are and it is simple, then why am I not seeing netbios ports 137 and 138? If they weren't working I wouldn't be writing this because my Samba-LDAP PDC wouldn't be functional. Jim C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# netstat -ntl Active Internet connections (onl

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-05 Thread Vox
This time Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes: > Vox wrote on Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:45:03PM -0600 : >> >> > Did I mention simple? >> >> uhm...nothing is simpler than: >> netstat -ntpl >> It'll give you a list of ports that are open in LISTEN or CONNECTED >> state

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-05 Thread Todd Lyons
Vox wrote on Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:45:03PM -0600 : > > > Did I mention simple? > > uhm...nothing is simpler than: > netstat -ntpl > It'll give you a list of ports that are open in LISTEN or CONNECTED > state, and what program is keeping the port open...what simpler do > you want? I t

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-05 Thread Vox
This time Jim C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes: > Simon Prosser wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> netstat > > Did I mention simple? uhm...nothing is simpler than: netstat -ntpl It'll give you a list of ports that are open in LISTEN or CONNECTED state, and

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-05 Thread Jim C
Problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# netstat -ntl Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:32769 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:389 0.0

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-05 Thread Jim C
Simon Prosser wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- netstat Did I mention simple? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-05 Thread J. Grant
I use netstat -ntl JG on the 05/03/03 23:46, Simon Prosser wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 11:34 pm, Jim C wrote: I remember asking this question a couple of months ago but I can't remember the answer, or find the email, to save my life. What is a sim

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-05 Thread Simon Prosser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 11:34 pm, Jim C wrote: > I remember asking this question a couple of months ago but I can't > remember the answer, or find the email, to save my life. > > What is a simple but sure way to find out if a specific port is open on

[expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-05 Thread Jim C
I remember asking this question a couple of months ago but I can't remember the answer, or find the email, to save my life. What is a simple but sure way to find out if a specific port is open on a specific interface? Jim C. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://