open ports

[wallsballs]

I have just used nmap to scan my ip for open ports and it says that the following ports are open.

23
53
80


Should i be worried or is this just normal?

Thanks walls

[spankdidly]

What's your external IP address!?!?!

haha, Just kidding. Look up the ports and figure out what's running on them.

[streaker69]

I have just used nmap to scan my ip for open ports and it says that the following ports are open.

23
53
80


Should i be worried or is this just normal?

Thanks walls

OMFG, you have port 53 open? Damn, you better get that one closed and fast.

[wallsballs]

how do i close ports then?

[spankdidly]

Is this windows 2000? Xp? Vista? Tiger? Leopard? Slackware? Ubuntu? Solaris? A Calculator? A one-winged bat? A garbage disposal? A monkey wrench? An amish Pyschic? and bag of joojoo beans? Wtf is it?

[thorin]

Perhaps you should:
1) Investigate what services are associated with those ports.
2) Attempt to connect to those ports with the proper clients/services once you know what they are.
3) Decide how to proceed based on what you learn.

[wallsballs]

I just when onto http://whatsmyip.org/ then used this command in nmap.

nmap -A -v MYIPHERE

Then it tells me that those ports are open.

[thorin]

Congratulations!

If you did -A when you should be able to answer spankdidly's question.

To resolve your open port issue please re-read my previous post and add:

4) Learn what nmap is for and what the switches you used tell it to do.
5) Take an internetworking 101 course or do some reading online to understand what you get when you use whatismyip.org

[streaker69]

Congratulations!

If you did -A when you should be able to answer spankdidly's question.

To resolve your open port issue please re-read my previous post and add:

4) Learn what nmap is for and what the switches you used tell it to do.
5) Take an internetworking 101 course or do some reading online to understand what you get when you use whatismyip.org

...and for Pete's sake, close port 53. I bet if you were to put wireshark on you'd a good bit of data going on port 53.

[wallsballs]

Well i have just seen if port 53 is open with shields up and it says its closed so, i am guessing that because i am scanning my ip and i am on the inside these ports are open to me but not the rest of internet.

[spankdidly]

Well i have just seen if port 53 is open with shields up and it says its closed so, i am guessing that because i am scanning my ip and i am on the inside these ports are open to me but not the rest of internet.

Or so we'll let you believe, MUWAHAHAHAHA.

[streaker69]

Well i have just seen if port 53 is open with shields up and it says its closed so, i am guessing that because i am scanning my ip and i am on the inside these ports are open to me but not the rest of internet.

Then you might want to read up on how Router's work with PAT (Port Address Translation) and NAT (Network Address Translation). The data has to come in somehow.

[wallsballs]

But just for now if shields up says that port 53 is shut is it most likely to be?

All i wanted to do was make sure that i had no open ports thats all.

[spankdidly]

Then you might want to read up on how Router's work with PAT (Port Address Translation) and NAT (Network Address Translation). The data has to come in somehow.

Streaker, I thought you sent it in telepathically? And Nat and Pat was just a conspiracy?

[thorin]

Well i have just seen if port 53 is open with shields up and it says its closed so, i am guessing that because i am scanning my ip and i am on the inside these ports are open to me but not the rest of internet.

Ya Gibson is a security genius and ShieldsUp is VERY trustworthy and up-to-date software, after all it's not like it's from the 1990s :eek:

Streaker, I thought you sent it in telepathically? And Nat and Pat was just a conspiracy?

Oh no someone's being telepathetic (http://forums.remote-exploit.org/showthread.php?t=10084&highlight=telepathetic) again :D

[streaker69]

Streaker, I thought you sent it in telepathically? And Nat and Pat was just a conspiracy?

Well, as you know, NAT is tied in very closely with PAT, as in the PAT from Southern Florida, if you know what I mean, nudge nudge, wink wink.

[spankdidly]

Well, as you know, NAT is tied in very closely with PAT, as in the PAT from Southern Florida, if you know what I mean, nudge nudge, wink wink.

The nudge nudge and the wink wink did nothing for me, Neither did google. LOL.

[streaker69]

The nudge nudge and the wink wink did nothing for me, Neither did google. LOL.

This Pat (http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/050401/050401_buchanan_vmed_7a.widec.jpg)........

[spankdidly]

This Pat (http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/050401/050401_buchanan_vmed_7a.widec.jpg)........

AH, I gotcha now. Did he get into a fight with a gaggle of geese?