On Thursday 2004 August 19 07:02, Greg Hennessy wrote: > On 19 Aug 2004 03:23:24 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A) wrote: > >The main source ports of the hits are 80 (web), 6346 (Gnutella) and > >6889 (bit torrent) but there are other random ports as well.
Newer versions of BitTornado (an experimental BitTorrent client) use a random port between 10000 to 60000. > >The only reference to the NAT box in pf.conf is: [...] > >So, what are these hits? Are they just the outside server sending a > >left-over packet after the client has actually closed the connection > > or does it sound like a hole? > > It would suggest that you have an issue with internal users sharing > copyright material over peer 2 peer. First, I think the OP knows what those ports are used for. Second, there are legitimate non-copyright-infringing uses for both Gnutella and BitTorrent (I use the latter for legitimate purposes on a semi-regular basis). I really think we could do without the implication that everyone who uses these services is doing so to infringe copyright. -- Shawn K. Quinn
