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Subject: Re: lots of interest in port 109 (POP2)
From: drkn (drkn
IRREAL.NET)Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 12:06:39 CST
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I work on an internet helpdesk (aghh) and one of the ports accessible
through the firewall is 109. (Yes, :23 is not allowed). Hence, you may
see these ports giving telnet access... I hear it is quite common
practice.
> > Does anyone know why port 109 is suddenly so popular?
>
> <speculation>
> I doubt anyone is using pop2 nowadays but there are many machines where
> pop2 daemon was installed by default (damn you, vendors!). I suspect many
> of these daemons have more holes than emental cheese because no one uses
> them, ergo no one bothers to maintain them.
> </speculation>
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