Sorta OT: Re: SecuritySpy

[Thomas D Arman]

Henk,

I do not know why netstat failed to find these open ports.  I seem to 
remember that the OS-X version of netstat is pretty lame and does not 
report all "servers" and reports NO process IDs.

The "irdmi" and the "vcom-tunnel" are just the WELL KNOWN NAMES for the 
two ports and other uses can be made of them.
As an example, people often want a second port for their HTTP web server 
and they set up port 8000 instead of the more commonly used port 8080.

I did find that "irdmi" is "associated" with Internet Radio and a common 
implementation is SHOUTcast and the "default" port for SHOUTcast is 8000.

SHOUTcast is a multiplatform freeware audio streaming technology, 
developed by Nullsoft. SHOUTcast uses MP3 encoding of audio content and 
HTTP (though multicast can be used) as the transport protocol to broadcast 
web radio, also known as Internet radio. It runs on Windows, FreeBSD, 
GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris.

Are you running that?

Tom

xtensionlist-bounces at shed.com wrote on 03/02/2006 11:15:34 AM:

> Tom,
> 
> I used Network Utility and scanned the ports between 7900 and 8100. This 
is
> what I got:
> 
>      Open TCP Port:     8000        irdmi
>      Open TCP Port:     8001        vcom-tunnel
> Port Scan has completed ...
> I have no idea what irdmi is nor vcom-tunnel
> So there is something listening on that port 8000.  These do not show up 
as
> running processes in the Activity monitor.  If this ever happens again I
> know what to do now.