[Wylug-help] Strange UDP port activity

[James Holden]

fluffy at fluffybacon.co.uk wrote:

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>The reason I'm slightly worried by this is that according to my routers
>logs this machine has been randomly(?) pinging hosts on the Internet.
>SIUD is unset on /bin/ping and the machine has only one user (me).
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>Needless to say I have no idea whats going on, and have unplugged the
>machine from the network.  Any further insights you might be able to
>provide would be greatly appreciated.  This is very much a learning
>experience for me, but mostly I hate mysteries.
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There's no need to worry! I'm quite sure it's nmap opening the port.
Have you checked with netstat multiple times during nmap's scan? Maybe
the port changes each time it scans a new remote port.

Also... my machine behaves the same!

James

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