Oliver Lupton wrote:
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:31:49 -0500 Stephen R Laniel <steve@laniels.org> wrote: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.Sorry, maybe I phrased myself badly. I, and I think the original poster is in the same situation, have my
own box behind a separate router, that router is firewalling incoming
traffic (WAN -> Me) and in my case then it does block *all* ports except
ones specifically allowed by the router admin (in this case, me).
My setup is similar. I have a router with only one computer on the
LAN side, and one ADSL modem on the WAN side. I have mine stealth
on all ports except the e-mail challenge port, which is closed.
Mike
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