From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jun 10 17: 6:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ciao.cc.columbia.edu (ciao.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.59.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0A6A15311 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 17:06:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (dialup-9-6.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.36.210]) by ciao.cc.columbia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA14340; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 20:06:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <376052E0.6D8FFF3D@confusion.net> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 20:05:52 -0400 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Swingle Cc: Nick Rogness , Gregory Carvalho , "freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: ports and applications References: <375F7453.77C0F526@stcinc.com> <19990610170151.D843@dub.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Just how would you go about running telnet on port 80? Bill Swingle wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 03:07:39PM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Gregory Carvalho wrote: > > > > > Using ipfw I am allowing port 80 through the wall (could you imagine if > > > I denied the good people of Gotham their web fix). Suppose I deny > > > telnet, but some external server has its telnet server configured for > > > port 80. Is there a method to prevent the telnet session from operating? > > > > Why would anyone run telnet on port 80? > > > > Is this an incoming or outgoing telnet session? I'm assuming > > outoing telnet sessions. The only thing I can think of is running > > the machines through a proxy server. > > Once, while working for a rather fascist employer that denied outgoing > connections on ports 22/23 I set up telnet, then later sshd, on port 80 > on my home machine. They employers couldnt do without their web access > it seems :) I think this is what the original writer is trying to avoid. > :) > > -Bill > > -- > -=| Bill Swingle - unfurl@dub.net - unfurl@freebsd.org - bill@cdrom.com > -=| "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers" Pablo Picasso > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 The above email Copyright (C) 1999 Laurence Berland All rights reserved To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message