[OmniOS-discuss] port 10926

[Graham Stephens]

On 11/06/2015 19:43, Jim Klimov wrote:
> 11 июня 2015 г. 18:20:43 CEST, Eric Sproul <eric.sproul at circonus.com> пишет:
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Graham Stephens
>> <graham at thestephensdomain.com> wrote:
>>> Guys,
>>>
>>> Is there something in OmniOS that 'phones home' occasionally?
>>>
>>> I happened to be looking at my ISP hub and noticed I had 59 attempts
>>> incoming to contact port 10926 from a Maryland U address. As I
>> haven't had
>>> my OmniOS box on yet today, I was a bit surprised.
>>
>> Nothing in OmniOS "phones home".  Do you have any community package
>> repos configured?  There is one run by a community member at
>> http://pkg.cs.umd.edu/ ...  that's the only UMD connection I can think
>> of.
>>
>> Eric
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> Also, if something random tries to contact your addresses, it might be port-probing (e.g. google if some viral rootkits or relays for any OS are known to run on such ports - maybe some "shepherds" are trying to find their "herd") or something else that was never demanded or implicitly initiated by your boxes. Just background radiation of the Internet. Maybe... ;)
>
> Jim
> --
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>

Jim,

It was just a bit odd that all of a sudden I had 50+ hits when I'd had 
very little previously - the only thing I'd been playing with was 
OmniOS, so I thought I'd better check.

Cheers.