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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