Re: Port 5767 -reply

[mht () clark net]

Tina,

It is quite interesting that I am still observing this behavior, therefore
I am not sure if they fixed the phone home problem..It generates quite bit
of messages attempting to contact home.


 On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Tina Bird
wrote:

> Wow, Ryan, now you've reminded me.  It was never a released version
> of ARCserve, it was an early beta that wanted to contact home to
> dump debugging information.  It was running on about half of the 
> NT servers at my old job, and generating millions of firewall alarms 
> (okay, that might be an exaggeration) until I managed to convince the
> LAN administrators that it had >something< to do with backups.
>
> > From the Cheyenne/CAI Web site:
>
> TECHNOTE: What Port and Socket numbers are used by the NT Agent? 
>
>  Date: October 10, 1996 
>  Product: ARCserve 
>  Platform: Windows NT 
>  Version: 2.x / 6.x 
>
>  Port and Socket numbers used by the NT Agent:
>  TCP and UDP : Port Number : 6050
>  IPX and SPX: Socket Number: 0x1687 (5767)
>
> NOTE: Upgrade your ARCserve versions 2.x and 6.0 for Windows NT to 
> version 6.5 for Windows NT.  ARCserve 6.5 addresses issues and adds 
> feature enhancements and performance benefits.
>
> Upgrading the ARCserve agent software to a released version took
> care of the "phone home" issue.
>
> Cheers -- tbird