Re: Closing ports

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I did a nmap on my laptop that has Storm Linux2000 on
> it (Debian based) and I have 4 ports that are open
> that I would like to try and close.
> 
> Port
> 
> 111    sunrpc

That's the portmapper.  Used for NFS.

> 515    printer

lpd  (printer daemon)

> 813    unknown

Don't know.

Find out what process is listening on that port with the
command:  "netstat -lp".

> 6000   X11

That's X windows.  You won't be able to get rid of this.
But you could block it with ipchains, or just make sure
you have X authorization turned on, and be careful with
"xhost" commands.

> as far as the printer goes I thought I stopped lpd
> from starting at boot.. but I could be wrong.

Did you reboot after changing that?  Is lpd still running?

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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