On Feb 12, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Steve Bergman wrote:
Jim Bassett wrote:
Is it over reacting to pull the plug and start over?
Silly question. You are certain that the machine you are probing is your machine, right? The ip address of you cable modem hasn't changed without you knowing it, etc? (I've done sillier things, which is why I ask.)
It's odd that smtp shows to be open, e.g. Even without the firewall, isn't sendmail configured only to listen on 127.0.0.1?
-Steve
I've done sillier things in the past. But I am probing the right machine. It is colocated on a static IP. I just ran it again.
The machine I am using to run nmap is connected to the net through a friends base station and I don't know anything about his setup. But I can successfully surf, send mail, and ssh into my server. Is there any chance that even though I am specifying my server IP in nmap that it is instead scanning my friends machine on my local network?
About smtp: I did just install a mail server, so I guess that is why smtp is open. But I didn't explicitly open the port myself. I can see in netstat that a bunch of stuff is open for mail (and spam assassin and clamav.) Maybe that install messed with iptables?