Re: [cobalt-users] Funky raq4 with portsentry

["Zeffie" <cobalt-proj@xxxxxxxx>]

> One of the RaQ4's got rebooted today, after applying a few updates.
> Portsentry seemed to cause something funky to happen..
>
> In /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
> /usr/local/psionic/portsentry/portsentry -tcp
> /usr/local/psionic/portsentry/portsentry -udp
>
> Rebooted the machine, ran netstat -ta and it showed every possible
> service I could think of as ":LISTEN"
>
> "WTF?" I thought. I kill -9'd portsentry, and ran netstat -ta again.
> This time only a few services were showing up. Fired up portsentry by
> hand, and it looked normal once again.

This sounds normal....  Portsentry opens or listens on a bunch of ports
(listed in portsentry.conf) and "listens" for somebody trying to access one
of them....   Then it Zaps them....

Zeffie
http://www.zeffie.com/