Re: Probes on Port 135 and 445 continue

From: Greg Mortensen (thevision_at_pobox.com)
Date: 10/14/04 

Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 23:42:05 +0000 (UTC)

In <MPG.1bd78090e19d9f6798985b@news-server.columbus.rr.com> Leythos <void@nowhere.org> writes:

>The box blocks all inbound unsolicited and the
>following outbound ports 135,136,137,138,139,444,1433,1434,2500 and not
>one of the ladies has complained about anything not working.

  ...and 1433, 1434, and 2500 are all valid ephemeral ports. What happens
when their web/mail/whatever client legitimately tries to use port 1433?

  Regards,
    Greg 

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