Never fails....I find the answer just after I hit send....

if((port = rndnum(60000)) < 1024)
port += 2139;

Looks like 1024 to 60000 (with a slightly higher preference for ports
roughly 2139 thru 3162).

So.....thoughts on security?  :)

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 12:02, Dennis Skinner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've just started looking at the STREAM command to clamd.  What is the
> port range that it randomly chooses from?  So far I have seen as low as
> 4700 and upwards of 59000.  The docs seem a little sparse in describing
> this functionality.  I looked briefly at the source code, but I thought
> someone here could save me a little time an eye-strain. :)
> 
> We generally run iptables on all of our machines and only open necessary
> ports from specific machines.  Looks like we will need to leave a very
> large range of ports open to our mail server.  Has anyone been able to
> make this more secure?
> 
> Thanks!



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