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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: TCP Ports
Date: 24 Jun 1996 12:02:15 GMT
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entropy@newreach.net (Dave A. Flanigan) wrote:

> 	I am faced with a strange problem that perhaps someone can
> help me with. One of the servers at our Florida POP has had the
> default TCP telnet port (24) changed to something else. Problem: I do

Btw., it's not 24, telnet is on port 23.

> not know what that port is, and the person who changed it quit. Is
> there any method, short script, or way that anyone can think of to
> find out what port that would be? 

Do you have access to the machine?  The telnetd is usually started via
inetd, so if you have read access to /etc/inetd.conf and
/etc/services, it should be easy.

Otherwise, you have to try each port number...

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j