I am working on an assignment for a class on Linux OS using Fedora and I am having difficulty with this section. The first part is simple, I am to use the netstat command [netstat -anp | grep " LISTEN "] which generates a list of services with ip address and port numbers.

The next part says, "Identify the name of the services (Protocol / Name AND Port Description) using www.google.com and typing "site: auditmypc tcp XXX" where XXX is a port number from the list generated from the netstat.... command."

I'm confused on this for quite a few reasons. 1st is that I was under the impression that websites went through port 80, so why shouldn't I just be using that as the port number. 2nd is I'm not sure how to read the netstat list as it displays; the first part shows a series of "tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:45967 0.0.0.0:* LIST" followed by a long list of services (firefox is in the list as "unix 2 [ACC] STREAM LISTENING 19954 2413/firefox /tm)

I have not been able to find any variation of the netstat command that will the "site: auditmypc tcp xxx" section.

That probably should read as that only reports TCP services in the listening state and doesn't require grepping for it...


Because the exercise is to see what services listen? While the IANA default (/etc/services) for HTTP is TCP/80 there's nothing keeping a site from using port TCP/81, TCP/8123 or any other TCP port. Besides the Internet wasn't built on WWW only.


See 'man netstat' the "OUTPUT" section.


You're supposed to submit the "site: auditmypc tcp xxx" query to your favorite search engine.