Security issue?

English Network/Internet
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Hello,
Please help me. I was reading about security issue and I ran the command netstat. I was surprised to see hundreds of lines in there, and I will give you few of them. I saved the entire list in a file for future reference.
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 192.168.1.2:24094 cot.novell.com:www-http ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.1.2:24093 cot.novell.com:www-http ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.1.2:24084 cot.novell.com:www-http ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.1.2:24085 cot.novell.com:www-http ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.1.2:24104 cot.novell.com:www-http ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.1.2:15267 www.opensuse.o:www-http ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.1.2:24092 cot.novell.com:www-http ESTABLISHED
Active UNIX domain sockets (w/o servers)
Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path
unix 2 ] DGRAM 1895 @/org/kernel/udev/udevd
unix 2 ] DGRAM 5091 @/org/freedesktop/hal/u
dev_event
unix 23 ] DGRAM 4830 /dev/log
unix 3 ] STREAM CONNECTED 137213 @/tmp/dbus-u7q6juL0BH
unix 3 ] STREAM CONNECTED 137212
unix 3 ] STREAM CONNECTED 137195 @/tmp/dbus-u7q6juL0BH
unix 3 ] STREAM CONNECTED 137194
unix 2 ] DGRAM 136814
unix 2 ] DGRAM 136297
unix 2 ] DGRAM 136280
unix 3 ] STREAM CONNECTED 136279

I would appreciate any help in identifying the issue and correct it if that’s the case. So far I don’t like the number of sockets used.
thanks dan

2

Which ones bother you? The ones to novell.com on HTTP are either the updater or you browsing their website.

3

Hi,

Nothing dodgy in that list, maybe if you didn’t recognise an address then it would be something to question.

All web traffic in your list to well known sites.

J

Tux-IT Open Source - BSD and Linux Solutions

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Thank you for your replies. What bothers me is that there are hundreds of sockets listed. If you think that is normal than I’m fine. I was checking at work on some linux machine with the same command and there are far less records.