On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 20:17 -0500, Don Bedsole wrote: > Hi all, > I've noticed on my firewall log a couple of tcp connection attempts (from > different IPs) with port 6000 as the source port on the remote host and port > 7212 as the destination port on my box. Is there another application besides > XWindows that uses port 6000 and that someone would be using to try to > connect to me? ---- doubtful - it's the destination port that counts ---- > I'm not concerned about, obviously my firewall is working. > But I thought if I asked, I might learn something. Thank you. > > Also, a question about list etiquette. After someone answers your question, > is it ok to post a thank you message? ---- yes it's ok - probably more important to say this resolved my problem to leave tracks for others that may go down your path and perhaps can find it in the archives - if it's particularly a troublesome problem... adding [SOLVED] to the subject is a good thing to do too. Craig
