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Ports that make firewalls happy?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:59:21 GMT
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Anyone seen a good list anywhere of ports that work with "most" corporate
firewalls? Every firewall is gonna be different, but they probably all
allow, say, port 8080. LarryP and I were running some news experiements
back in mid-August on port 8080, and he could get to that through his
corporate firewall. But I hesitate to mirror 199->8080 because 8080 is
traditionally for HTTP proxy servers...
--Todd
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Ports that make firewalls happy?
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| (...) If the firewall is designed to keep people out rather than keep people in (probably not necessarily the state of most corporations), anything above 1024 is likely to work. 8080 is probably an ok choice, if it indeed is allowed most places. (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Ports that make firewalls happy?
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| Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) Could I just mention that for some of us the question is not "will work let me see LugNet" but "can I make our firewall let news through". And the answer is yes. But I did that because I needed a message off (...) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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