ftp://mail.victim.com ???!!!

Unleashed,

What is chsh is saying is that it definately is possible for all of those names to point to the same IP address - that's because they could all reside on the same machine. I could be running an email server (software), an ftp server (software), and a web server (software) all from the same box. My box is assigned one IP address, that's why each will have the same IP address, regardless of which service (ftp, email, web) you are using. The only difference is that each of these will connect at a different Port number. By only giving the address ftp.victim.com, then you are not denoting a port number - to denote an exact Port number you would say something like ftp.victim.com:80 <- a colon followed by a number denotes specific port numbers.

Hope this helps...

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Originally posted by Maverick811
Unleashed,

What is chsh is saying is that it definately is possible for all of those names to point to the same IP address - that's because they could all reside on the same machine. I could be running an email server (software), an ftp server (software), and a web server (software) all from the same box. My box is assigned one IP address, that's why each will have the same IP address, regardless of which service (ftp, email, web) you are using. The only difference is that each of these will connect at a different Port number. By only giving the address ftp.victim.com, then you are not denoting a port number - to denote an exact Port number you would say something like ftp.victim.com:80 <- a colon followed by a number denotes specific port numbers.

Hope this helps...

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Ok , Maverick811
I am agree , and I have said this too that the ip is the same but the ports are different, take a look at my above post, u will see.

I just didn't know that it may be possible to log on a mail server with port 21 (ftp port)
do u get what I mean?

and also chsh indicate that it might not be a mail servere.
ok may be it is not a mail server.

thank u all

it means that on the machine or a machine with an alias name of "mail" that ftp services are running.

WARNING
If you want to alert them I would do so discreetly because they may come back at you taking a defensive stance and get all angry and bent out of shape and accuse you of all sorts of stuff you had nothing to do with....and if someone else finds an exploit on their system and dicks around with it, you'll get blamed.

So what if they are running ftp on their mail server anyway?! They probably have a size limit on attachments for email and would prefer people to use ftp for large files or perhaps that's where they direct people to download their dialer package.

Just because it's there....in and of itself....doesn't mean anything until it's proved to be exploitable....which may or may not be the case.

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Ok , Maverick811
I am agree , and I have said this too that the ip is the same but the ports are different, take a look at my above post, u will see.

I just didn't know that it may be possible to log on a mail server with port 21 (ftp port)
do u get what I mean?

and also chsh indicate that it might not be a mail servere.
ok may be it is not a mail server.

thank u all

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Alright, if you do a telnet mail.somewhere.com 21, do you get a mail server's response, or an FTP server's response?

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Alright, if you do a telnet mail.somewhere.com 21, do you get a mail server's response, or an FTP server's response?

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Ok I test it by telnet but I didn't get any response