entry on firewall log

[Don Bedsole]

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 20:17 -0500, Don Bedsole wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've noticed on my firewall log a couple of tcp connection attempts (from 
> different IPs) with port 6000 as the source port on the remote host and port 
> 7212 as the destination port on my box.  Is there another application 
besides 
> XWindows that uses port 6000 and that someone would be using to try to 
> connect to me?
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Craig White wrote:
doubtful - it's the destination port that counts
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Thanks Craig.  Ok, I think I have it. Only services are associated with 
individual ports.  (e.g. I connect with a web server on port 80, but it could 
use any port above 1024 to communicate back to my computer).  In the instance 
in question, the traffic came from port 6000 of the "sending" computer, but 
this was not tied to any service.  It was only the port which the sending 
application was using.  It could have been port 10200 for that matter.  

Ok, I'm still learning.  Thanks for your help.
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