Broadcasting on port 31337? - RESOLVED

[Richard Crawford]

On Monday 09 May 2005 14:14, Richard Crawford wrote:
> Our IT guy tells me that my Linux laptop is broadcasting on port 31337. 
> And while I don't trust his competence, I am concerned about this.  I've
> looked around and it looks like 31337 is used by Back Orifice which, as far
> as I know, is a Windows beast.
>
> I've added an IPTABLES rule to block outbound traffic to that port from my
> computer but I still need to figure out what's going on.  Anyone have any
> ideas?

Looking at the logs that our IT guy sent me, I realized that that was the time 
I ran nmap from my laptop at work onto my network at home.  And since I'd 
asked nmap to check on that port, that's why it looked like there was a 
broadcast from that port to my computer at home.

-- 
Richard S. Crawford
http://www.mossroot.com
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