inetd visible on internet

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 17:14 +0100, thomas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> given the specialized security policies of Ubuntu, i.e no listening
> daemons open to the world I wonder why all ports seem to be stealthed (=
> invisible) but not 113 (marked by Shields Up! at www.grc.com as closed).

That's identd, not inetd. Various servers on the internet will attempt
to connect to your ident port when you try to connect to them. If you
drop packets (what Shields Up calls "stealth mode"), they'll wait for
the attempt to time out before letting you proceed. If they get a
connection refused, they'll continue immediately.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org