Hi User level client applications (i think) are not allowed to use ports lower than 1024. So you may have some reason to think so...
Regards ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Meier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Matthew Cline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 06 December 2001, Thursday 10:38 Subject: Re: Outgoing connection to port 6000 from port 25... > On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 04:45, Matthew Cline wrote: > > I have my firewall setup to stop and log attempts to connect to external X > > servers, and this caught three attempts (all in the same second) to connect > > to destination port 6000, from a source port of 25 (SMTP). I don't think > > that my qmail server would attempt to make such a connection. Have I been > > rooted? > > > > Source ports do not map the destination ports - they are selected at > random from any available. There is no reason think you've been hacked, > on this evidence. > > Do your logs show the originating ip? > > -Jim _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
