From: Mordread Wallas (mordread.wallas@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Sep 11 2005 - 15:46:02 EDT
2005/9/9, Mike Jones <sopiaz57@gmail.com>:
> Has anyone ever seen this before, nmap is showing port 21 to be open on
> a machine on the internet, but 21 is not listening on that machine. It
> happens to all machines I scan outside the local area network.
>
> Thanks in advance
Dear Mike,
You may have a firewall running between you and these computers.
Firewalls often make port 21 appears to be opened.
Best regards,
Mordread
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