On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Bob Crandell wrote:
> I'm reading an article in an NT magazine about how to use
> NetMeeting through a firewall. It says to open some ports (389,
> 522, 1503, 1720 for TCP)
Not ONE of these is listed in my /etc/services file, which
makes me wonder WHAT the hell these are for. They aren't 'standards'
by any means.
> and open a range of TCP/UDP 1024 through
> 65535 for dynamically assigned ports. My question is: Isn't
> like taking down the firewall?
If the internal machine initates all connections, no, but if it's
possible for an external machine to 'pass thru' the firewall and
start a connection, yes.
> Isn't a reasonable response something like: NO!!
yes, the answer is no. :)
