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From: "Rob Sterenborg" <rob@sterenborg.info>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: RE: open ports
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 12:03:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040516100347.AEFD290A7@sterenborg.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY15-F22bMcBuxPaYX00067fe4@hotmail.com>

> i m also doing so but there is the problem of some programs 
> that some times use dynamic ports like msn messenger uses 
> dynamic ports for file transfer through it (i think so if it 
> is wrong then tell me please) ad where the log will go and 
> can i specify any file instead of the one default

AFAIK MSN likes to connect to port 1863/tcp by default (it does here) and if
that failes it will try to connect to some servers on port 80/tcp.
So, if you ACCEPT connections for both ports 80/tcp and 1863/tcp you should
be fine. Although some MSN functions like file-transfer might not work.


Gr,
Rob



  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-16 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-16  9:52 open ports azeem ahmad
2004-05-16 10:03 ` Rob Sterenborg [this message]
2004-05-16 15:09 ` Alistair Tonner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-17  0:55 azeem ahmad
2004-05-17  9:43 ` David Cannings
2004-05-16  9:22 azeem ahmad
2004-05-16  9:43 ` Antony Stone

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