From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 22 19:27: 2 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4829837B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:27:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from electricrain.com (electricrain.com [64.71.143.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89D6143F1E for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:27:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fuzzy@electricrain.com) Received: (qmail 30166 invoked by uid 540); 23 Jan 2003 03:26:54 -0000 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:26:54 -0800 From: Chris Doherty To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPFW, blocking IM servers Message-ID: <20030123032654.GB22420@zot.electricrain.com> Reply-To: chris-freebsd@randomcamel.net References: <34651.63.104.35.130.1043185192.squirrel@email.polands.org> <87hec2jggs.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> <20030121230308.GA89143@babylon.polands.org> <87el76hw7a.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87el76hw7a.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: XEmacs X-Koan: mu. Organization: The Inside Foundation Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 06:20:09PM -0600, Kirk Strauser said: > > I'm doing that now, however, I know the Yahoo client will use any open > > port it can find and tunnel through that. > > I hadn't been aware of that. Seems like rather un-neighborly behaviour. heh. not that they originated the idea, but the first I heard about every application using HTTP was maybe five years ago when it turned out that if you blocked AIM's normal ports, it would just start using HTTP over port 80. :-) c ------------------------------- Chris Doherty chris [at] randomcamel.net "I think," said Christopher Robin, "that we ought to eat all our provisions now, so we won't have so much to carry." -- A. A. Milne ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message