[CentOS] Tracking Open Ports

Marcelo Ricardo Leitner marcelo.leitner at gmail.com
Fri May 30 16:22:20 UTC 2014


Em 30-05-2014 13:12, Eric Falbe escreveu:
> On 05/30, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Eric Falbe <ericf706 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to notify or log when a specific remote port is openened?  I have an old LDAP server that I am looking to get rid of, but there is still a few queries reaching it.
>>>
>>> The sytem authentication is setup correctly (as is Postfix), so I am thinking there must be some script or program that is setup to query the older LDAP server.
>>>
>>> I tried using lsof -i|grep 389, but I am not quick enough to get results before the socket is closed.  Is there any program or script I could write to detect when this socket gets opened, and what PID and/or program owns it?
>>>
>>
>> I'd run tcpdump or wireshark with a 'port 389' filter on the old ldap
>> server to capture the source IPs of the queries if you don't know the
>> host(s) doing it.   And if you know the host(s) but not the program(s)
>> configured to do it, you might try a 'grep -R 'pattern' /etc
>> where the pattern is the name or ip of the ldap server.

I'm not sure how critical this server is but you may LOG and DROP it (at 
least the first SYN attempt), so TCP will keep retrying to connect. It 
should last longer then..

One other option is a systemtap script, but that's more intrusive.

Marcelo




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