Re: [Hampshire] [OT?] This is odd...

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Author: Hugo Mills
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On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 10:09:38PM +0100, Vic wrote:
>
> Hi All.
>
> This might be OT for the list, but I know there are some decent network
> admins reading it...
>
> A customer of mine has a static IP address with a server on the back of
> it, running a few odds and ends. Nothing special - mail, web, news, ftp.
>
> He can't currently talk to his server - and nor can I (ssh is open to my
> address). Running nmap against his address currently[1] gives me a single
> port open - 5555. So I connected to it...
>
> [vic@goliath ~]$ telnet <address> 5555
> Trying <address>...
> Connected to <address>.
> Escape character is '^]'.


What happens if you do something like:

GET / HTTP/1.1<return>
<return>

here?

It may give you some clues as to what the device is.

> 501 Not Implemented
> Content-Type: text/html
> Connection: close
> Content-Length: 149
> Server: FedoraCore/6 UPnP/1.0 miniupnpd/1.0


UPnP and miniupnpd would suggest that it's either some kind of
router, that uses UPnP to push things through a firewall, or it's some
kind of media server.

> Now I'm only expecting one machine there to be running Linux at all - and
> it's not running FC6. There might be an embedded Linux somewhere - it's a
> Belkin router; I don't know what they run inside.


FC6 is pretty old, so some kind of embedded device seems plausible.

Hugo.

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