[nycbug-talk] RE: Close port with no direction to open. Help!!!

[Rodrick R. Brown]

You question is quite clear unless your already using the port or
administratively disabled the port by blocking it with ipfilter or such
there is no real way of shutting down a port. 
 
Try the following 
 
perl -p -i.bak -e 's/^#pop3/pop3/' /etc/services 
 
restart inetd 
 
Try using netstat to verify the pop3 service is listening 
$ netstat -a| grep pop
tcp4       0      0  *.pop3                 *.*                    LISTEN
 
as this point you should be able to connect to your pop server internally. 
 
If this isnt working it might be a firewall or such out of your control try
contacting your network administrator for more assistance. 
 
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From: talk-bounces at lists.nycbug.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nycbug.org]
On Behalf Of Matthew Lam
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 4:57 PM
To: talk at lists.nycbug.org
Subject: [nycbug-talk] RE: Close port with no direction to open. Help!!!
 
> Hi All:
> 
>             I have a FreeBSD with a close port of 110.  I am
> trying to open this up so I can setup pop3 server.  Since 
> this is a FreeBSD machine, I do have any experience with 
> opening ports on this.  Can someone help?
> 
>  
> 
> Matthew
 
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