Re: Ports that are open on a Server
From: Jason (jason.ungerer@za.pwcglobal.com)
Date: 07/24/02
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From: "Jason" <jason.ungerer@za.pwcglobal.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 22:57:04 -0700
Hello HTH
Thanks for the tip. Yet, the netstat command would be a
start, do you have any more avenues that I can look at?
J
>-----Original Message-----
>Jason,
>
>You don't have to restart the server in order to clean up
memory - you can
>use, for example, Task Manager to find which process is
utilising most
>memory (Perfmon a great tool to determine if consumption
actually
>increases), and restart/kill the service.
>
>You can use any port scanner to find out what ports are
open. If you are not
>using firewall/packet filtering, netstat -a command will
give you the list
>of listening ports.
>
>Also, you'll need to do your housekeeping - stay up to
date with patches
>(Windows Update a great help) and secure your
applications. For instance, on
>a mail server port 25/TCP is a legitimate traffic, and
you can have all the
>patches in the world, but open mail relay - result of
improper
>configuration - can cause increased use of the serve
memory, CPU and network
>bandwidth.
>
>HTH
>
>--
>Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP, MCSE
>-= F1 is the key =-
>
>"Jason" <jason.ungerer@za.pwcgloabl.com> wrote in message
>news:1989901c23236$6d8bdaa0$36ef2ecf@tkmsftngxa12...
>> Hi
>>
>> I have been subjected to a DoS. My Mail server's memory
>> utilization which increased by some 20% over 2 days. i
had
>> to result to shutdown and restart the server to clear
the
>> cache. is there a reference doc that i can look at to
try
>> and "plug up" and only keep necessary ports open.
>
>
>.
>
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