[ale] Something listening on a socket?

[tlewis at mindspring.net (Todd Graham Lewis)]

On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Robert L Harris wrote:

>   This is off topic.  My ISP is using BSDi-3.0 against my recomendation and they're
> kinda up the proverbial creek.  someone hacked them and put a proggy listening
> on port 3666.  I've checked all the conventional methods and can't find it.
> netstat show's it listening, but how do I find the program?  I want to find and
> kill this person...

1) You can use lsof to see which process is listening on that port.

2) The fact that they got hacked almost certifiably had nothing to do with
their running BSDI.  99% of all security holes are horribly cross-platform,
and Linux is just as susceptible as any other Unix.

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