2/5     hmm.
$netstat -at | grep LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:43300                 *:*                     LISTEN
        \_ this is an sshd
tcp        0      0 *:49416                 *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:36201                 *:*                     LISTEN
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11/12   How does one find out if a system has rootkit installed?
        \_ Unix or m$?
           \_ Unix. On M$ I always assume it's compromised.
              \_ Install Tripwire before you plug your server into The Net?
                 The only other answer I can think of is to reinstall the
                 OS from scratch on another server and do an md checksum
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2/2     So is there some serious problem with gigabit? I keep seeing problems
        with gigabit devices in 10/100 networks, or vice versa.
        \_ do you think gigabit is some exotic, bleeding edge technology
           just a few people are using?
           \_ All I know is that when I use it in mixed networks, I keep
              running into problems.
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12/22   Does anyone know if there's a system call to test if a port is
        availible without actually attempting to bind to it?  Such a call
        would be really useful for me.
        \_ You could try to connect to it.
           \_ You could also parse the output of "netstat -an" to see if
              there's anything listening on the port.  Are you sure this
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3/30    Is there a way in Mac OS X to get the total packet count sent/received
        for a particular network interface?
        \_ $ netstat -I [interface] | tail -1
           Col 5 (Ipkts) is the recv'd pkts, Col 7 (Opkts) is the sent pkts.
           \_ Excellent! Thanks.
        \_ Looks like Activity Monitor shows all network activity combined.
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1/4     Linux question: when I do a ypcat passwd on a Linux NIS client,
        I see 11-13 lines, then a long pause and then it continues.  On my
        sun boxes and a few other Linux machines the whole map appears
        instantly.  Any ideas?  netstat -i doesn't report any errors on the
        client or nis server.
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10/7    I'm using winxp's rsh to connect to a solaris 2.8 machine. Is there
        anyway to have the rsh connection timeout? Currently, it seems to
        hang forever when something goes wrong. So far the only remedy is
        to reboot the windoze machine. TIA.
        \_ I don't know anything about winxp's rsh but generically speaking
           you can wrap anything with perl or expect alarms/timers.
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5/12    Hi, I run windows Xp home edition on my laptop.  It's hooked up
        to my DSL router via ethernet most of the time.  When I want to
        just use the laptop without a net connection, the laptop sometimes
        locks up and becomes really really slow.  To the point where I can't
        even right-click on the network icon to disable it temporarily.
        I can't even do Ctrl-Alt-Delete to bring up the task manager.
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2/11    Any idea why my debian laptop would have this traffic. I'm on a
        wireless network in my house. connected to the internet via
        comcast. My laptop's iptables firewall is blocking all
        inbound ports
        14:18:55.194060 10.0.0.101.2622 > http://fatboy.paqnet.com.www
        \_ spyware, most likely
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8/16    Anybody know of an existing program similar to pop-before-smtp
        but for IMAP. It wou use a current IMAP connection to allow
        SMTP relaying from the same IP addres as that IMAP connection?
        \_ it's the same program, just change the regexp used to search
           for login lines and change the logfile watched
           \_ Nope, That does not work. IMAP connections are persistent and
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6/12    I setup imaps and pop3s on a freebsd virtual server.  I can connect
        to it if I first ssh into the machine and do pine.  But if I try
        to connect to it from somewhere outside (say soda) it always times
        out.  I can see that the daemons are running from "netstat -a".
        What could be wrong?  some router filtering on 993 or 995?  Or
        the server is configured in some weird way?  this is a virtual server
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2/13    In NT or XP, is there a way to display the IP address of a remote
        machine when the remote machine is pinging my machine?  Thanks.
        \_ netstat?
              \- netstat is ridiculous for this. hammer. nail. bad. wrong.
                 i believe tcpdump runs on msftware:
                 tcpdump -i <if> 'icmp[0] = 8 or icmp[0] = 0'
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