Hello all,

Strange things present themselves that I would greatly appreciate
comments on.

As a random act of paranoia I have portscanned one of the machines at
work with the latest NMAP Beta (2.54BETA22) and got the following:

(snipped version)

22/tcp     open        ssh                     
23/tcp     open        telnet                  
25/tcp     open        smtp                    
113/tcp    open        auth                    
260/tcp    filtered    openport                
361/tcp    open        semantix                
379/tcp    open        is99c                   
557/tcp    filtered    openvms-sysipc          
583/tcp    open        philips-vc              
3000/tcp   open        ppp                     
3128/tcp   open        squid-http              
5432/tcp   open        postgres                
20432/tcp  open        unknown                 
27665/tcp  open        Trinoo_Master        

This to me looks pretty bad I know. After I had recovered my heart from
the floor and pasted a copy of the new phone list over the hole in the
wall that my boot had just emerged from, I tried the following.

I got a fresh copy of netstat from a machine I know is not compromised
(as I installed it yesterday far away from the net) and ran it on the
box that is possibly compromised. None of the ports mentioned above, as
open, showed up. 

Next I tried to telnet to the Trinoo_Master port and rightly got:
 telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
and the following in the log:
Apr  5 13:41:14 xx kernel: Packet log: input REJECT eth0 PROTO=6
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:3215 yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy:27665 L=60 S=0x00 I=49258 F=0x4000
T=64 SYN (#44)

So the question is:
Is NMAP lying or is there something I am not taking into consideration?


Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Brett

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