Re: socks, port 1080

["Ralph M. Churchill" <churchillrm@home.com>]

> question. Try 'fstat | grep tcp' and see what you can. (And no, I
don't
> learn so well -- a few months ago, I think someone posted a way to use
> netstat to get the same information, but I can't recall how and the
> manpage is either not helping or I should go to bed, one of the two..)

Are you thinking of "netstat -an" to show all active connections? Maybe.
Either way, I'd already checked that... good suggestion, though.

>
> Another note -- I have heard of ISPs doing firewalling for their users
> without really telling their users. This can show up as 'filtering' in
> nmap scans if they did a particularly poor job of firewalling the
ports.
>
Good point. In fact, I'd be pretty willing to bet that that is the
kicker. My ISP does appear to be doing some proxying and firewalling and
what not. Thanks for the tip, I hadn't thought of that.

RMC