<quote who="Nick Croft">

> I think it must be to do with the perl DBI module, which prides itself on 
> being able to do all sorts of transactions with all sorts of postgres or
> oracle type servers.

That's just a module, not something running against the port. Use netstat
-pan to find out what's using it.

> More stuff to tighten up. I'm losing that niggling feeling of paranoia the
> more rules I insert, and the more services I stop.

Close everything, and open what you need. I'd recommend setting up shorewall
and going through its policy documentation. Nice and easy, very flexible.

- Jeff

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