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Re: Port 41170 traffic

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Sun Nov 23 10:57:45 2003

Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 10:56:53 -0500
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: Adi Linden <adil@adis.on.ca>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.58.0311230933010.1516@mobile>
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Adi Linden  writes on 11/23/2003 10:35 AM:

> Anyone has any idea what is carried on tcp and udp port 41170?
> 
> Adi

Destination port 41170?  Not a well known port service at any rate.
It might be a trojan phoning home on a random higher numbered port.

Oh wait - google says that there's a p2p music sharing program called 
Piolet that apparently listens on port 41170 - www.piolet.com

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