07-28-2008, 09:29 PM
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 Re: Router hacked.
SINNER wrote:
> * Bill Baka wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:
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>> You may send me back to the books on that one. I was under the
>> impression that SMTP wanted port 25, just as news wants 119, etc.
>> Bill Baka
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> News wants to CONNECT to SERVER with 119 open just as SMTP wants to connect
> to a server with 25 open. You can close every port on the client box and
> still get mail and read news. Those ports are SERVER ports.
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Makes sense.
Thanks,
Bill
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