xinetd.d listening twice on port 69
David Curry
dsccable at comcast.net
Wed Apr 6 15:00:02 UTC 2005
Mark Sargent wrote:
> David Curry wrote:
>
>> Andy Green wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> But I am still bemused by the two listening sockets on the same port
>>> being possible. Maybe it is some kind of cool load balancing feature I
>>> never heard of. Can anyone else here explain how it can be?
>>>
>>> - -Andy
>>
>>
>> May be this is a dumb question from a clueless neophyte, but does the
>> phenomenon constitute a security problem that needs to be addressed?
>>
> Hi All,
>
> David, do you mean as to how the file /etc/xine.conf came to have the
> data regarding tftp.? It is rather interesting that it did, as I most
> certainly didn't add it. I even reproduced the installation process,
> of both the rpm install, and the original install, via yum, and
> neither add anything to the .conf of xinetd. They only add tftp files
> to xinetd.d. Cheers.
>
> Mark Sargent.
>
In part, yes. The question had dual context. One dimension was whether
your situation arose from being hacked. The other more general context
was whther or not dual listening on a port presented an opportunity for
security exploit.
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