On Saturday 15 February 2003 01:53, Carl Hudkins wrote:
> On Friday 14 February 2003 18:57, Eric Miller wrote:
> > I am behind a firewall.  Exactly which ports do I need
> > to have open to use emerge?
>
>       It may depend on your firewall (such as whether it uses state tracking),
> but here I haven't done anything special.  AFAIK, allowing FTP and
> HTTP(S) should be enough.  The rsync protocol (according to the man page)
> uses port 873, so you may need to open that one as well.

Remember that are outward connections, so you must allow setting up 
connections to those ports (20/21, 80,873), not inward connections. 

Paul

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