The issue is that port number is only a default on these apps, and they
can easily use any port number.
Jack Coates, Rainfinity SE
t: 650-962-5301 m: 650-280-4376
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, John Banta wrote:
>
> At 05:27 PM 6/21/00, you wrote:
> ><snip...>
> >The fix at www.phoneboy.com/fw1/faq/0386.html only lists the following 5 IPs
> >
> >208.178.163.56/255.255.255.248
> >208.178.175.128/255.255.255.248
> >208.49.239.240/255.255.255.240
> >208.49.228.0/255.255.255.0
> >208.184.216.0/255.255.255.0
> ><snip...>
>
> I am new to this list, having just installed my first FW-1 this last week,
> but as this seems to be an active thread I'm going to break the 'newbie
> shut-up and listen' protocol to ask a question. What is wrong with what I
> did? I went out and did a search on port values for Gnutella and Napster
> and found the following:
>
> Napster : 6688, 6699, 7777, 8875 and 8888
> Gnutella: 6346
> BO2K: 31336, 31337 (eleet, how lame can you get?)
>
> I then defined these as Services and built a policy of Any;Any;'The
> above-mentioned services';Drop
>
> Is this Ok? Is it better than trying to drop the Napster servers whose DNS
> entries seem to be fluid? Or am I risking dropping other protocols that are
> being remapped to different ports by my hide address proxying?
>
>
> John Banta - Geophysicist
> Bass Enterprises Production Co.
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>
>
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