[Xitami] Outgoing Ports/Editing Start-up Items

Johannes Prost xitami@lists.xitami.org
Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:44:05 -0600


Hallo Rod,

just a thought; what's about using a shortcut for this programm and there you could set 
the start up to "minimised window". 

Johannes

Am 17 Oct 2004 um 3:33 hat navy nut geschrieben:

> thank you jacob
> for taking the time to reply
> 
> while viewing the router's incoming log-table, i can clearly see inbound traffic reaching xitami on
> port-80 as expected.  while viewing the router's outgoing log-table however, it appears that xitami
> makes use of a very wide range of random outgoing ports, while transmitting it's response to
> corresponding ip-addresses.
> 
> since installing some proper router-log capture and viewing software, it's now very clear to see
> that i was confusing xitami's http-transmission port, with the outgoing service-ports which are
> logged by the router.  though i did not believe you at first jacob, the new software clearly
> indicates that xitami is indeed transmitting on port-80 like you said it was.
> 
> i now have a second question which does not pertain to xitami, but i feel that someone in this forum
> should be able to assist:
> 
> this router-logging software (obtained from the router manufacturer) is very basic, and offers very
> little flexibility for tweaking user-options and comfort settings.  it simply loads at start-up,
> maximized in a 'normal window', and begins capturing log-data from the router.  closing the window
> [x], minimizes this tiny utility to the system-tray... where it belongs.
> 
> i would like to edit the run-key to have this utility load hidden, and directly to the system-tray,
> but cannot seem to find the correct command-suffix for the task.  i would kindly appreciate any
> information which may assist me with editing this run-key correctly.  thank you.
> 
> rod
> 
> Jacob Dahl Pind <rachael@rachael.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Johannes

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Johannes Prost
xitami@pastryworld.ca