Re: Port Scanning

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Strazzarino, John wrote:
> I have a Linksys Cable/DSL router on my Red Hat Network.  The Linksys show
> an incoming access report.  I see scans for port 80 (http), but also see
> scans for port 1433 and port 49320.  What are these other ports?

1433 is a scan for Microsoft SQL Server.  I'm not certain what 49320
is, but it's not a privileged, well-known or registered port (see
http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers).  Aren't you glad you
have a firewall?  And does the access report list the offending IP or
hardware address?
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