output from netstat

[jbk at mail2.gis.net (jbk)]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Which port?  0.0.0.0 is IPADDR_ANY which means, effectively,
> that it's listening on all IP Addresses on all interfaces.  But
> which particular port are you interested in?  E.g. 0.0.0.0:2049
> is an NFS server, and :631 is CUPS.
> 
> -derek
> 

As root, do netstat -tlp

t for tcp
l for listening
p for process identification


I did that, I am not going to post the output unless 
requested. The processes that were listed include 
"rpc.<service>  smbd and a few others. Why are these 
processes listening on all addresses instead of the local 
127. and my lan of 10.251.227. . It is disconcerting when my 
  samba logs list a machine as 0.0.0.0 requesting 
connections to services. This isn't a recent development it 
appeared about a year ago when I upgraded to the Fedora 
distribution from RH8.0.

till next
	Jim