Re: Closing open ports

From: Duane Beck (dbeck@legendent.com)
Date: 12/14/01 

From: "Duane Beck" <dbeck@legendent.com>
To: <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 17:40:31 -0500

> > TCP 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
> > UDP 0.0.0.0:445 *:*
>
> The ports are not currently open to any foreign machines; the
0.0.0.0:0 and
> *:* are just showing the ports are listening for connections
from -your-
> machine to -your- machine, and it's nothing to really worry about.

Actually, I believe the 0.0.0.0 and * mean your machine is listening for
connections from anywhere to any locally bound address. Once a
connection is established, you'll see the local and remote addresses for
each connection.

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