[2142] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Question: Regarding KNETD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Mon Dec 23 16:54:07 1996
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 16:54:01 -0500
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Steve@hon.com
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Steve's message of Sun, 22 Dec 1996 13:31:31 -0500,
<32BD7E83.1F88@hon.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 13:31:31 -0500
From: Steve <Steve@hon.com>
I was checking my active connections this weekend
using 'netstat' and saw that I had a 'knetd' port
opened from a user accessing my web site. I was
just wondering what the purpose of this protocol
is in this function. Thanks for any information
you can provide to me.
It probably means nothing. knetd is a port used as a *target* for doing
old Kerberos V4 kerberos authenticated inetd-style programs. It hasn't
been used in production for a long time. If some connection has a
*source* port of knetd, it's probably just the port number which the
kernel picked at random when creating a TCP connection.
- Ted
