[Tfug] ftp question

[Jim Secan]

At 10:43 AM 10/15/04 -0700, Erich wrote:
>>all down, my firewall was rejecting packets coming in from the target
>>machine to my machine at various high ports (59000+)
>>
>      This is a digression from the topic, but a 5-digit port number 
>makes me blink. The higest
>I've seen is 6000 which  corresponds to x11. My firewall rejects any 
>external service port number
>higher than 1023.

Went back to make sure I hadn't added an extra 0, and I had not.  Looking
at my current firewall log, I see several rejected packets at ports > 6000.

BTW, the problem did clear up (for the most part) on its own.

Jim
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