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?