SuSEFirewall and Web sites
I tried sending this yesterday, but I don't think it got through. My apologies if it shows up as a duplicate... Hi, I've recently installed the suse firewall script, and have it cnofigured so that incoming high tcp ports are not allowed, and incoming high udp ports are dns only. This appears to be working great 99% of the time, however recently I have run into some web sites that appear to want to make high port tcp connections, and won't give me any response without them. Two imortant sites that I am observing this on are: www.ctan.org: keeps trying to make tcp connections to port 61116 www.sun.com: keeps trying to make tcp connections to port 61229 Before I reconfigure my firewall to open these ports, I was wondering if anyone knew what these sites wanted to do? I find it odd that all other services or web sites I use are fine with the ruleset I have, yet these sites want more. Cheers, Chris. -- Chris Clarke stcanard@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/
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Chris Clarke