Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ralph Spitzner Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Re: Ports open closed.? and timeouts Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 06:49:54 +0200 Organization: Hanswurst & Kaspar Hauser Ltd. Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <97fe990b-7b92-4f70-9b83-8b9661ec7ac2@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: RvCFikQlDO31yztxmContQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120909 Firefox/15.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.12.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.networking:1667 Steve Wolf wrote: [...] > 1. How can I see what ports are open outbound and Ibound netstat -anp shows who's listening where. /etc/inedt.conf tells you who gets called by inetd. nmap yourself from some remote machine. 'outbound' ports are assigned dynamically (there's no port 21 to port 21 connection) > > 2. how to increase the timeout for these ports. A 'server' or 'listener' listens forever. not sure about your question here.... -rasp -- See why I hate Windows users? All pain, no gain. -Howard Chu