From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 8 7:30:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82DB537B491 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 07:30:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f18FU3816414; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:30:03 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:30:03 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: John Indra Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What ports do IRC use? Message-ID: <20010208093002.B20733@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20010208163653.B31943@office.naver.co.id> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.14i In-Reply-To: <20010208163653.B31943@office.naver.co.id>; from "John Indra" on Thu Feb 8 16:36:53 GMT 2001 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Feb 08), John Indra said: > I have never deal with IRC before. Now, I need to get a working > machine for IRC client only. > > I am running tight ipfw rule (deny all), so, what port to open to > allow IRC connection. Is IRC connection like FTP, HTTP, or neither? > > I setup my machine to allow all "out" connection, so connecting to > port 6667 of the server seems to be not a problem, but when the > server need to contact the client, it can't (of course). Now, what > port do I need to open so the server can "chat" to the client easily? You will also need to open port 113 (the auth service) for incoming connections, and enable the builting identd in /etc/inetd.conf. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message