enabling tftp port 69

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Aug 12), Atuboyedia Christiana said:
> I have a question that needs to be answered very quickly.  I have
> enabled the use to tftp on my IBM T40 FreeBSD machine.  However, when
> I use nmap to look scan the ports and to tell me what ports are open,
> port 69 is not on that list.  However, I am able to tftp between two
> computers.  Can someone tell me what is going on here and what I can
> do to enable port 69?  Thank you.

tftp uses UDP sockets, and nmap does a TCP scan by default.  Use the
-sU flag will tell nmap to scan UDP ports.

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	Dan Nelson
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