first attempt at security

[James Nobles]

Hmmm...I'm trying to setup some security on my box
having moved from dial-up to dsl.I'm using Red Hat
7.1 and i have 
portsentry running set for ports 1-500 i
believe?Also a simple
set of iptable rules that turns off echoing and
forwarding.I have edited the /etc/services
file.Now...when i do netstat -a i get the output
below.Is this normal? All these tcp ports
listening doesn't seem right or is it?  Thanks in
advance.


Active Internet connections (servers and
established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address          
Foreign Address         State      
tcp        0      0 *:1                    
*:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:20034                
*:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:printer              
*:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:32771                
*:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:32772                
*:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:40421                
*:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:32773                
*:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:32774                
*:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:31337                
*:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:6667                 
*:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:11                   
*:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:5742                 
*:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:143                  
*:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:netstat              
*:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:x11                  
*:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:54320                
*:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:2000                 
*:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:1524                 
*:*                     LISTEN      
     
tcp        0      0 *:socks                
*:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:12345                
*:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:12346                
*:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:635                  
*:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:49724                
*:*                     LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 *:uucp                 
*:*                     LISTEN      
udp        0      0 *:640                  
*:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:641                  
*:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:who                  
*:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:1                    
*:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:32770                
*:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:32771                
*:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:32772                
*:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:32773                
*:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:32774                
*:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:54321                
*:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:700                  
*:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:31337                
*:*                                 
udp        0      0 *:635                  
*:*                                 
raw        0      0 *:tcp                  
*:*                     7           
raw        0      0 *:udp                  
*:*                     7