On Mon, 9 May 2005, Richard Crawford wrote:
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 14:14:59 -0700 From: Richard Crawford <rscrawford@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Broadcasting on port 31337?
Our IT guy tells me that my Linux laptop is broadcasting on port 31337. And while I don't trust his competence, I am concerned about this. I've looked around and it looks like 31337 is used by Back Orifice which, as far as I know, is a Windows beast.
I've added an IPTABLES rule to block outbound traffic to that port from my computer but I still need to figure out what's going on. Anyone have any ideas?
If it was just a single event it's possible you happened to use a high numbered ephemeral port for something that was 31337.
Coincidences do happen :)
Cheers,
Al
