Re: Ports

"Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.guarddog
Organization Avtech Electrosystems Ltd.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Peter Sheldon wrote:
> Hi all
> I am an IPTABLES " Whats that " person
> 
> Therefore Guarddog/Guidedog is a god send for me. THANKS!!!!!!!
> 
> NFS has been working fine for awhile. Then all of a sudden this weekend it started playing up I had a look with ethereal and found that the port numbers had changed. I went to my favourite site "LinuxQuestions.org" and did a NFS search and the bottom line is that NFS stinks because the ports it uses is random.
> 
> 
> QUESTION: Do you foresee any problems opening all ports between LAN and LOCAL


Peter,

NFS ports can be "pinned" so that they do not change. See 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.guarddog/989 for one example. 
This would be more secure than needlessly opening ports, but it is more 
effort.


- Mike



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