[CLUE-Tech] Corrected: open ftp port
Brandon N
bneill at yahoo.com
Thu May 10 10:15:11 MDT 2001
or not, I just realized that is your dns servers IP address. but the
idea is the same. telnet to the port and see what it says.
Brandon
--- Cyberclops <Cyberclops at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
> I typed that and the results were interesting it says:
>
> Server: techanglegw9.verioco.com
> Address: 199.239.19.9
>
> Name: localhost.hawaii.rr.com
> Address: 127.0.0.1
>
> I don't remember naming my computer "hawaii.rr.com"
> that the email address that I use even though I'm connected to the
> web
> through techangle.
>
> I'm still wondering why I have an FTP port open. Can you tell me
> what
> to type on my own machine to try to find out what it might be? Can I
> look at the process management tool to try to figure it out?
>
> David Anselmi wrote:
> >
> > Amazing what you take for granted after doing this for a while,
> isn't it?
> > Here are some links:
> >
> > client/server
> >
>
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci211796,00.html
> >
> > host
> >
>
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci212254,00.html
> >
> > No entries for localhost, but here's some elaboration. Sense 1) of
> host
> > (above) is a node on the Internet. That means the machine has an
> IP address,
> > and (usually) a name that maps to the IP address through DNS. So a
> local
> > host is one that is 'here' and a remote host is one that is
> 'there'. I would
> > say that the distance between 'here' and 'there' depends on context
> and is
> > usually fairly irrelevant.
> >
> > On the other hand, localhost is Unix shorthand for 'this machine
> that's
> > processing for me'. If I type 'nslookup localhost' then localhost
> will be
> > the machine that runs the nslookup program (I can telnet from one
> machine to
> > another, to another, so that the characters I type go through many
> machines
> > (hosts), but only one will run the nslookup program).
> >
> > Clear as mud, right?
> >
> > Dave
> >
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