Re: Firewall configuration for gnomemeeting

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Colin Paul Adams wrote:

"Rodolfo" == Rodolfo J Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


    Rodolfo> At 12:41 PM 7/8/2004, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
    >> You ARE joking aren't you? That's 60,000 ports!  It would take
    >> me a year to type all that lot in!  Isn't there a way to limit
    >> which ports it uses?

    Rodolfo> Hopefully you're aware that you can type 5000:65000 in
    Rodolfo> the iptables rule and it will treat it as a range. If
    Rodolfo> not, consider it good news... you just changed a year
    Rodolfo> into 3.7 seconds.

Thanks - but that still looks to be a huge security hole - according
to lsof, it's only listening on one or two ports.

No; iptables is stateful. You can configure those ports to be open only for established or related connections.



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-John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)



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