Most IRC programmes use 6667 (these are more likely to be legit ones) also
8000, 8001 are often used as well as several others. to stop this you
will want to configure the firewall to refuse outgoing packets to these
addresses.
Simon
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, tim beck wrote:
> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:10:16 +0800
> From: tim beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Linux-Net (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: disabling Chat ports
>
> Folks
>
> Being a fairly novice linux user, I have a fairly ordinary question which probably
>easily solved
> Does anyone know how to stop users on my network from accessing the 'chat room'
>ports? I believe the ports are from 6660- 6670 (the default being 6667).
> Is there a way to disale these ports?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.....
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim in the north
>
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