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from: JONATHAN HUNTER
date: 1997-11-28 20:45:00
subject: port 720/tcp (Linux)

Hello All!
24 Nov 97 16:17, Mike Bilow wrote to Jonathan Hunter:
 JH>> Just a quick question - Does anybody know what port 721 is used for
 JH>> under Linux??
 JH>> Occasionally, I have a lot of open connections to it,
 JH>> Port 721 isn't listed in RFC 1700 (Assigned Numbers), and
 JH>> it's not in my /etc/services either, so I'm stumped.
[...]
 MB> No, but please let me know if you find out.  This is really strange.
As far as I can tell, it's something along the lines of RPC based services. 
Since I restarted my machine, the port number has changed - which suggests 
something dynamic, rather than something in inetd.conf (it isn't - I've 
checked! :-)
Jonathan 
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