Re: Port 62396 connection

From: Michael J. Pelletier (mjpelletier_at_mjpelletier.com)
Date: 01/19/05

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    Charles Newman wrote:

    >
    > My firewall recorded a connect attempt on port 62396. What is on
    > that port? None of the various port databases any infornation on
    > that port. I cannot figure out what they would want on that high up
    > a port.

    What was the source (the port the client was using) port? High end ports are
    used for dynamic connections on most OSes. For example, I connect to
    www.google.com. My port (my outgoing port) might be 45,003 connecting to
    www.google.com's port 80. Now there are two endpoints. My port, in this
    example 45,003, and google's web server operating on port 80....

    Does that help?

    -- Michael

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