Thread: close open ports
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cwichura is offline cwichura
2007-08-14 , 17:20
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#10
Originally Posted by supergrapeman View Post
Why port 53 is open, I don't know. I don't see why the n800 needs to run a DNS *server*?
This was already answered in this thread. The N800 is running dnsmasq to do its DNS queries and cache the results. If you open up an xterm and do an nslookup, you will see that it is configured to resolv DNS names from localhost...