From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "azeem ahmad" Subject: RE: open ports Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 00:55:40 +0000 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org but its not the soulution to just leave the programs that have dynamic ports. there must be a solution for them in netfilter Regards Azeem >From: "Rob Sterenborg" >To: >Subject: RE: open ports >Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 12:03:47 +0200 > > > 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 > > _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus