is one of my hosts a scanner?

Tue Sep 9 14:38:07 PDT 2003

>> so tell me, why does the iana think port 2703 is sms-chat?  i.e.,
>> why is the port used by razor2 not properly registered as a well
>> known port?

IANA *assigns* port numbers 0-1023, and *registers* port numbers 1024-49151.

There is no port registered for razor2, and it's definitely a bug
to use a port registered to another service.

sms-rcinfo	2701/tcp   SMS RCINFO
sms-rcinfo	2701/udp   SMS RCINFO
sms-xfer	2702/tcp   SMS XFER
sms-xfer	2702/udp   SMS XFER
sms-chat	2703/tcp   SMS CHAT
sms-chat	2703/udp   SMS CHAT
sms-remctrl	2704/tcp   SMS REMCTRL
sms-remctrl	2704/udp   SMS REMCTRL
#			   Tom Friend <tomfr at microsoft.com>

The above was clearly assigned before Jan 2002

razor           3555/tcp   Vipul's Razor
razor           3555/udp   Vipul's Razor
#                          Vipul Ved Prakash <mail at vipul.net> July 2002