On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 07:20:18PM +0600, Mikhail Romanenko wrote:

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> These ports is denied by script, but I do not understand what 
> does it mean. If some private net user browser try to connect 
> to some Internet www server (DPT=80) it has to use one of the 
> dynamic and/or private ports (49152 through 65535) as a source 
> port, hasn't it?

My understanding of it is that the ports IANA list are for servers. When a
client is connecting to a server, it can use any port it wants. i.e. those
blocked requests were probably web browsers trying to access the web server
on that machine.

HTH,

Gareth


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