Open port

[Peter]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:

> I have just finished a fresh install of Debian, and while hunting down a
> different problem I noted that I have an odd, open port on my system.
> Here's the output of nmap localhost:
>
> Starting Nmap 4.00 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2006-04-26 11:43 EDT
> Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1):
> (The 1665 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
> PORT     STATE SERVICE
> 22/tcp   open  ssh
> 25/tcp   open  smtp
> 111/tcp  open  rpcbind
> 113/tcp  open  auth
> 443/tcp  open  https
> 816/tcp  open  unknown
> 2628/tcp open  dict
>
> Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.285 seconds
>
> What is the "unknown" process listening on 816?  I notice that this is
> different port than it had before a reboot, but there was still an open
> port (I think it had a port around 900-ish).  If I "telnet localhost
> 816" a session is opened, and I am informed that ^] is the escape key,
> but that's all it says, and I don't know how to further investigate
> this.

root# fuser -vn tcp 816

Peter
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