[olug] users.olug.org

ktb xyf at nixnotes.org
Wed Mar 12 00:10:20 UTC 2003


On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 05:19:09PM -0600, Jonathan Warren wrote:
> I was tryign to find what my open ports I had on my box.  I downloaded nmap to users.olug.org and built it and installed it into my home directory.  Everything I scan with it reports that port 21 is open.  Any idea why it would say that?  It seems very strange to me.

What is "everything you scan?"  21/tcp is generally used for ftp.  You
can grep though /etc/services to find that information.  Sounds like you
have an ftp server running on your system.
hth,
kent

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