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From: Martijn Lievaart <m@rtij.nl>
To: Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: RELATED connections and the feeling of security
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:51:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <461FDF35.7010901@rtij.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <461FC3C1.1090906@plouf.fr.eu.org>

Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Hugo Mildenberger a écrit :
>> should the ftp-conntrack helper expose arbitrary ports on the
>> originating host?
>
> Yes it should, for the following two reasons :
> 1) The host explicitly asked for it over the FTP control connection.
> 2) The firewall administrator allowed it by loading the FTP conntrack
> module.
>

No, not arbitrary ports. The port asked for in the port command should
be opened (and it is).

M4



  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-13 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-13 10:02 RELATED connections and the feeling of security Hugo Mildenberger
2007-04-13 11:30 ` Cedric Blancher
2007-04-13 12:57   ` Hugo Mildenberger
2007-04-13 14:31     ` Cedric Blancher
2007-04-13 19:21       ` Hugo Mildenberger
2007-04-13 17:54     ` Pascal Hambourg
2007-04-13 19:51       ` Martijn Lievaart [this message]
2007-04-13 21:52         ` Pascal Hambourg
2007-04-13 18:05 ` tom

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