Re: Port 8080

From: Gerald Vogt (vogt_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:50:33 +0900

Trinity wrote:
> Port scan shows it open on his router but not mine - two different
> routers is why. It should show as blocked according to *every* port
> scan site we've been to. Only IDENT 113 should show as Closed and
> maybe HTTP 80 as Closed also, no ports should show as Open. When he
> disconnects the router and uses just the cable modem along with Sygate
> firewall on his computer it shows all tested ports blocked.

Well, it is probably the router remote management interface. Can it be
that you configured the router for remote management and opened that port?

> I'll send him what you posted though and he can test it himself. But
> we don't even allow Telnet services to run on our computers so I doubt
> he will. I think he is just going to buy a better router at this
> point. Thx anyway.

You don't have to run telnet services. The command I wrote you before
uses the telnet client to connect to port 8080. It allows you to
directly communicate with the server that is running on port 8080. When
you do

> telnet www.apple.com 80

and then type in the connected telnet client

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.apple.com

you should see the HTTP answer from apple.com. You can just tell me the
IP of the router and I can try. As I wrote you, if there is a web server
running, you can always use your browser and point it to
http://a.b.c.d:8080/ with a.b.c.d being the IP addess of the router. I
suspect its the remote administration interface. Just turn that off and
it should close the port. I still cannot see that there is anything
wrong with your router that you could not do wrong with any other router
as well...

Gerald

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