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Talk Service (talkd, in.talk, ntalk) Detection

info Nessus Plugin ID 25201

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Synopsis

The remote service is a talk server.

Description

The remote service responded to a talk request.

A talk server (also known as 'talkd', 'in.talk', or 'ntalk') is a service that works over UDP and notifies a user when someone wants to initiate a conversation.

Note that talk is nowadays considered by many to be obsolete.

Solution

If you do not use this service, disable it.

See Also

https://www.unix.com/man-page/FreeBSD/8/TALKD/

Plugin Details

Severity: Info

ID: 25201

File Name: ntalk_detect.nasl

Version: 1.28

Type: remote

Published: 3/3/2000

Updated: 11/22/2019

Asset Inventory: true

Supported Sensors: Nessus