Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 03:10:57 -0700 From: Allen Campbell <allenc@verinet.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Privileged port problems Message-ID: <36D12D31.1C649D7F@verinet.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
My ISP appears to be filtering outgoing packets for privileged source port numbers. This is preventing me from accessing anoncvs.freebsd.org; the CVS client attempts to authenticate to anoncvs.freebsd.org using a privileged source port (via rsh) and the operation times out. I also observe that rpcinfo as a non-privileged user works correctly, but fails as root because it then attempts to use a privileged source port. I'm fairly certain I will have no luck convincing my ISP to allow these connections. No doubt they will claim it prevents their customers from using their system to attack other hosts. I am able to access the Mozilla anonymous CVS server successfully because they are using :pserver: authentication which uses no reserved port to authenticate. Would it be possible to provide :pserver: anonymous CVS authentication to anoncvs.freebsd.org? Disclaimer: If I have made some hopeless mistake in my analysis of this please forgive me. I don't claim some network guru status; I'm just trying to figure this out. Thanks -- Allen Campbell | Lurking at the bottom of the allenc@verinet.com | gravity well, getting old. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?36D12D31.1C649D7F>