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    Is pfSense Infected? (xinetd 127.0.0.1:6969) Bittorrent port!!

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      guardian Rebel Alliance
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      Trying to solve a couple of other problems, and when I did a sockstat -l I found:

      root: sockstat -l
      USER    COMMAND    PID  FD PROTO  LOCAL ADDRESS        FOREIGN ADDRESS
      [snip]
      root    xinetd    14099 0  udp4  127.0.0.1:6969        :
      [snip]

      This binding has me worried as 6969 is a bittorrent tracker port, and I'm not running bittorrent. (That I know of!)

      This condition survives rebooting the pfSense box… other than a different PID, no change.

      I have pfSense connected to one Windows 8.1 PC.  LAN port is 192.168.1.0/24, and WAN port goes to the cable company switch/router which is 192.168.0.0/24 while I'm learning/testing.  I hope to ditch the switch and double NAT once I feel confident enough to move my whole system over.  The only connection between the Winbox and pfBox is the ssh connection that I'm running to do the sockstat.

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      pfSense 2.7.2-RELEASE

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        cmb
        last edited by

        That's the TFTP proxy, not bittorrent.

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          guardian Rebel Alliance
          last edited by

          @cmb:

          That's the TFTP proxy, not bittorrent.

          Thanks, that puts my mind at ease.  Given that I have no need for TFTP, and I occasionally will use bittorrent, can I easily turn TFTP off, and will doing so cause any problems other than not being able to network boot devices from pfSense?

          Thanks.

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          pfSense 2.7.2-RELEASE

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