What’s listening on my ports in Windows?

Posted on April 8, 2014 · 2 mins reading time

Sometimes it is good to know what is running on your machine - or if something is actually listening when you are trying to connect to that pesky server you thought you had running.

The command you want to run is:

netstat –anop TCP | find “LISTEN”
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Ironport MID was too big for scanning by Outbreak Filters

Posted on March 11, 2014 · 1 min reading time

So I was trying to find out why we got this message in the message tracking logs for an email today…

Ironport MID 42780863 was too big (337410/262144) for scanning by Outbreak Filters

Due to size vs. speed concerns there is a limit to the size of items checked against the Outbreak Filters. I believe the default setting’s 128K, but it can be upped to increase efficacy at the cost of processing power.

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portDB – a new little project.

Posted on March 9, 2014 · 1 min reading time

So I’ve been maintaining my own little database of ports for my own records of late, just so that when I found something on a network I could go “oh, this is probably what it was. It was just a set of pages added to this blog, but that was fairly unmanageable.

I went looking for an easier way of building something and built portDB. So far it’s fairly simple, as these things should be.

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Splunk error in auto-complete box

Posted on February 3, 2014 · 1 min reading time

I started getting this error on a user’s auto-complete box while trying to search in splunk because we’d failed to give them the correct capabilities.

The capabilities I had to apply were:

  • get_metadata
  • get_typeahead
  • rest_properties_get

 

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