Re: A few odd outbound packets

From: frankB (frankB@nospam.net)
Date: 03/30/02 

From: frankB <frankB@nospam.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 05:46:10 GMT

frankB wrote:

> Every now and then I get a couple of strange outbound packets that are
> caught by IPTABLES - I only allow a few specific ports open for outbound
> and all inbound is only on established connections (machine is also behind
> a router).

Could this just be a problem with weirdly coded websites? I just noticed
that if access a web site with an odd port designation
(www.google.com:34999), I regenerate these firewall exceptions. If that's
the case, why would a web site do that? Do this mean that the site is
accepting connections on an odd port for some reason, or is it to see what
ports are open on my end?

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