I warn a certian website about some open ports and this is what i get...

[nateholtrop]

It seems you have quite a few ports open on your IP and you might want to look into fixing that up before someone else stumbles across this. Now I am not threatening or anything I am just giving you a friendly heads up from a former Bad Axe resident.



xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

auth on port 113

domain on port 53

login on port 513

shell on port 514

smtp on port 25

spooler on port 515

sunrpc on port 111

telnet on port 23

time on port 37





Nathan

he said thanks and sent it to the ISP...heres what they sent me.

Nathan,
yes the port are open, and it is a felony to do anything with the open ports.
thanks for the heads up
LISA

seems they are basically accusing me of doing stuff to those ports thats the last time i do that for anyone, JERKS.

Nate

 

[MrBond]

They were probably just mad cause you were able to successfully netcat (or however you figured out they had open ports) them and they didn't catch it on their firewall. I only portscan people upon request now, people are just getting too parinoid.

I have caught trojans on friend's PC's before too....so it's not a bad way to check yourself. I try to portscan my pc at least once a month (from my remotly located linux box).

 

[nateholtrop]

ya i did a port scan on the public library's IP and i found all that open...and thats the thanks i get.

nate

 

[pdo]

why are you scanning their ports anyway?

 

[nateholtrop]

i was very very bored hehe i had the day off and every site i went to i did that...hehe

nate

 

[notfred]

They're probably open for a reason. My server box has lots of ports open too.... http on port 80, ftp on port 21, smtp on port 25, telnet on port 23, etc.... They're open because it's a server. A server would be pretty useless with no open ports, wouldn't it?

And, seriously, why were you port scanning them?

 

[Descartes]

umm, lol.

Although at least one of those services should probably be disabled, it was rather stupid of you to tell them that. Did you expect thanks? Are they supposed to shutdown their mail, dns, or telnet daemon because you ran a portscan?

I think you somehow feel that running a portscan makes you some sort of a security enthusiast. Nope, not at all. As notfred noted, what could would a server be if it didn't expose any services? That's like having a Ferrari in the garage and never driving it.

Thanks, drive through.

 

[GL]

Port Scanning in and of itself may be illegal

 

[rahvin]

I count many more than 1 port that should be closed, by my count 4 of them should be closed to internet traffic, it shows the lack of a firewall. Especially the spooler, LP is notorious for security vulnerabilities. What was the OS signature?

Unfortunately Nathan, by sending that email you have placed suspicision on yourself, if that server is ever cracked you will be on list of those first visted.

 

[Looney]

What did you expect? How would you feel if somebody knocked on your door and said "Your backdoor was unlocked last night... you really should lock it up before goign to bed."

I know i would be asking 'why the hell did you check my backdoor.'

 

[Soybomb]

<< Port Scanning in and of itself may be illegal >>

That is just one mans opinion though, its been held up to be legal so far.

 

[element]

&quot;he said thanks and sent it to the ISP...heres what they sent me.

Nathan,
yes the port are open, and it is a felony to do anything with the open ports.
thanks for the heads up
LISA&quot;


As far as I can tell, you got your thanks. What else did you expect? They are letting you know its a felony just in case you didn't know or decide to do something stupid later on.