>From Brandon <blanu at uts.cc.utexas.edu>
>> Are there a significant number of firewalls that allow you to make outbound
>> connections, but not on arbitrary (1024-5000) ports?
>
>Definitely. Some firewalls only allow port 80 (and sometimes a few other
>standard ports).
>
>> Would it be worthwhile
>> to have the node take a range of ports to make outbound connections on?
>
>You don't get to choose. You have to make a connection on whatever port
>the destination node is listening.
>

Sorry, I was thinking that the firewall was restricting the local port you 
bind the outgoing connection to.

--
Benjamin Coates


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