[Techtalk] port numbers

[Wim De Smet]

On 8/19/06, Robyn M <rob_39 at bigpond.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've been looking at my new server and the firewall logs show that
> something/someone keeps trying to access port 17641 20 - 30 times an
> hour for the past few days (not same ip address each time).
>
> Where can I find out what they are trying to get at?
>
Dunno much about it myself but found this cool thingie when googling:
http://isc.sans.org/port_details.php

It doesn't list any known services/exploits at this port though and I
couldn't find any other references. Is anything listening on this
port? ("netstat -lntu" for both tcp and udp)

regards,
Wim