>hi
>i was playing around with a port scanner today and found that as well as the
>normal ports that i have specified open ie ftp etc i have the following.
>
>65557

The scanner code has a bug. Ports go up to 64K only (16 bit field). You
are seeing aliases of ports at 1, etc. Feed those numbers through

perl -ne '$x = $_ % 65536; print "$x\n";'

and you'll see they are familiar services.
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