On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Paul Johnson wrote:

> I need to connect to a SunOS 5.5 box on port 1717, and nmap tells me
> that this port is closed. However, I have no docs for this machine,
> and I have absolutely no idea what firewall it's using, and how I
> should open this port. Can anyone give me any pointers?

JUst because a given port is closed doesn't mean a firewall is running.
More likely is the daemon that listens on that port simply isn't
running, in which case it needs to be started. Oh, and Solaris 2.5
is *really* ancient--it hasn't been supported for years--you should
strongly consider upgrading.

HTH,

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On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:31:53 GMT, Rich Teer
wrote:

>JUst because a given port is closed doesn't mean a firewall is running.
>More likely is the daemon that listens on that port simply isn't
>running, in which case it needs to be started.

Thanks - you were right; no firewall, I just messed up the daemon
setup.

> Oh, and Solaris 2.5
>is *really* ancient--it hasn't been supported for years--you should
>strongly consider upgrading.

I'd love to... once I've found all that mission-critical data that was
forgotten about years ago..