[Xitami] Outgoing Ports

[Jacob Dahl Pind]

on 10-Oct-04 09:05:56, navy nut wrote:
>hello,

>in an effort to troubleshoot a problem i'm having with
>a possible vulnerability, i have blocked outgoing tcp
>port-range :3127-:3198 using the software firewall on
>the pc which xitami runs from.

>i have noticed however, that xitami transmits on a
>very wide range of outgoing ports... and i'm now
>wondering if this new setting 'could' interfere with
>it's normal operation.
Xitami will only use the port its listning on to transmit
on, what you might see is ftp transferes though, as they
use random port, http on the other hand uses only port 80
unless you have configured it for another port.

Jacob Dahl Pind

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