If they're large and fragmented, a valid reason to someone is that they 
want to hit you with a DOS attack:

http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/advisories/2001/01-012.htm


I know of no legitimate traffic on those UDP ports, but I could be wrong.


-- Joe

At 11:56 AM 6/21/01, Gary Flynn wrote:
>Are there valid reasons for UDP packets to be destined
>for ports 80 or 443?
>
>--
>Gary Flynn
>Security Engineer - Technical Services
>James Madison University
>
>Please R.U.N.S.A.F.E.
>http://www.jmu.edu/computing/info-security/engineering/runsafe.shtml

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