[ECOS] Ports 25 and 110
Andrew Lunn
andrew@lunn.ch
Mon Oct 4 15:17:00 GMT 2004
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 11:06:38AM -0400, Rick Davis wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> Another thing I have seen. I have a thread that listens on a port,
> 11111. When I stop the thread, I close the port. The port scanner still
> indicates it responds even after the thread has shutdown the port and
> exited. I even waited 10 minutes before scanning.
Thats probably normal. TCP sockets are kept around for a while after
being closed so that any delayed retries etc are thrown away and not
passed to a new socket which is using the same port number. If you
leave it long enough it should go away, but i don't remember what the
timeout is.
Andrew
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