Broadcasting on port 31337?
Alan Horn
ahorn at deorth.org
Mon May 9 21:25:19 UTC 2005
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Richard Crawford wrote:
>Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 14:14:59 -0700
>From: Richard Crawford <rscrawford at mossroot.com>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Broadcasting on port 31337?
>
> 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?
If it was just a single event it's possible you happened to use a high
numbered ephemeral port for something that was 31337.
Coincidences do happen :)
Cheers,
Al
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