Re: How-to authorize UDP connections for a range of ports and a single IP ?

On Thursday 23 February 2006 2:50 pm, Didier Spaier wrote:
> Thanks for your answer :-)
>
> I did what you proposed and it works.
>
> I had to authorize access to port 554 for TCP too.
>
> I still have to narrow the ports range though but as far only one iP is
> concerned, I'm not in a hurry for that.
>
> Meanwhile I use now (g)mplayer instead of VLC.

Glad it worked!

I wouldn't worry too much about narrowing the port range if that IP belongs to 
your ISP.

You may want to modify your /etc/hosts.deny and allow files for extra security 
(so no one @ 212.27.38.253 can login to your machine with SSH for example).



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