On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:26:05PM +0000, Oliver Lupton wrote: > My router/firewall blocks all ports, including those over 1023 (1024?) I assume you mean that your router *can*, not that it necessarily does. It seems like it would be awfully inconvenient to block all such ports, given that programs often need to open connections to non-privileged ports. E.g., see below for all the ports that netstat reveals have connections currently open. 2252 2733 5973 10892 18810 21097 21622 22184 23816 32779 37380 45559 46174 46175 46176 46177 46178 46179 46180 46181 46182 46183 47950 48946 50271 50579 52343 52382 52426 52462 52481 52482 53166 53494 56174 56241 57329 60000 61464 62586 -- Stephen R. Laniel steve@laniels.org +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key
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