Strange foreign connections

[Xian]

On Wednesday 02 February 2005 17:01, Gene wrote:
> While running netstat I found these entries:
>
> Active Internet connections (including servers)
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address        (state)
> tcp4       0      0  localhost.52730        undernet1.blueyo.ircd
> ESTABLISHED
> tcp4       0      0  localhost.52398        minotor.spale.co.ircd
> ESTABLISHED
> tcp4       0      0  localhost.60635        bagan2.srce.hr.ircd
> ESTABLISHED
>
>
>   The foreign addresses all show ircd at the end,  but there is no irc
> clients or servers running and irc ports are blocked at the firewall.
> Does anyone have any idea what might be going on here?
>
> Gene

Should anything foreign be connecting to localhost? All my foreign connections 
go from the machines IP in the LAN.
-- 
/Xian

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