[CentOS] Strange TCP ports phenomena

Dominik Składanowski dominik.skladanowski at ch.pw.edu.pl
Wed Aug 17 20:23:08 UTC 2005


>>>Sounds like exactly what you're seeing, I know our watchguard firebox proxies FTP connections so it looks like every box has FTP installed even if they don't.
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>>>Do you have a router/firewall in front of your server?  If you are using
>>>something like http://www.grc.com to scan from the Internet you are
>>>probably getting a response from the router/firewall in front of your
>>>server not from the server itself.
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>>Few days ago I had another server on the same IP (it's IP for tests
>>before production place), which was FTP server. So maybe that's a reason?
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> If the current server does not have those ports open they should show as
> closed or stealthed.  I believe that you have a device providing NAT in
> front of your machine and it has that port open for some reason.  
> 
> Is that at an ISP or a home network?  

There is no any NAT in the front of this machine. Besides it has public IP.
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