Server issues

[Sebastien Estienne]

On Nov 21, 2007 6:24 PM, Thilo Six <T.Six at gmx.de> wrote:
> Soren Hansen wrote the following on 21.11.2007 13:23
> > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:43:10PM +0100, Thilo Six wrote:
> >>> sebest at mercure:~$ sudo netstat -upna | grep dhclient
> >>> udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:68              0.0.0.0:*
> >>>         6708/dhclient
> >>                    ^^^^
> >>> is it only accessible from inside?
> >> dhclient is no service
> >
> > It listens for DHCP responses and alters your network configuration as a
> > result of those responses. That counts as a service in my book.
>
> My Firefox sends out a HTTP request and alters the viewed content as a result
> of this, but for sure i won´t call Firefox a "service".
>
> A service stays where it is a waits for *incomming* requests (dhcp*d*), a
> client walks out and *does* a request (dhclient).

if you use dhcp, issue this command : "sudo netstat -upna | grep dhclient"
You'll see that dhclient, is listening on udp port 68, if it listens on a port

>
> That´s my definition
>
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