Re: svrloc

From: Volker Birk (bumens_at_dingens.org)
Date: 11/13/03

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    John <eagel777@hotmail.com> wrote:
    >>427/tcp open svrloc
    > Any of you have a clue on what this is, I googled a bit and it seems
    > to be the
    > server location protocol. But I really don't want this port open for
    > the outside "world".

    elk:~ # lsof -i :427
    COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
    slpd 430 root 0u inet 0x03789ba0 0t0 UDP *:svrloc
    slpd 430 root 1u inet 0x038a8a0c 0t0 TCP *:svrloc (LISTEN)
    elk:~ # uname -a
    Darwin elk.local. 6.8 Darwin Kernel Version 6.8: Wed Sep 10 15:20:55 PDT 2003; root:xnu/xnu-344.49.obj~2/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
    elk:~ #

    http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/html/slpd.1.html

    For the point that slpd is required for different purposes by OSX, perhaps
    you will use the packet filtering with option "Firewall" in "Sharing".

    HTH,
    VB. 

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