From owner-freebsd-security Thu Mar 15 11:20:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8065637B719 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:20:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA10524; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:20:35 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA05688; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:20:31 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15025.5630.472269.543769@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:20:30 -0700 (MST) To: "Ronan Lucio" Cc: Subject: Re: Port 113 In-Reply-To: <099801c0ad7c$75b63800$2aa8a8c0@melim.com.br> References: <006b01c0ad38$39eed0a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <099801c0ad7c$75b63800$2aa8a8c0@melim.com.br> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Could anybody say me when I need to allow the port 113 > in the firewall? *Need* form auth is a strong word. However, it does tend to speed up email transfers is you enable a version that always responds true. So, any external SMTP servers you have *should* have this port enabled. > What services use this port? I know that SMTP uses it, and I believe that ftpd uses it, and I believe irc also uses it. > For example: I have a computer that is only DNS server, > Does this port need allow connections the to DNS service work? I don't believe so, but someone will certainly correct me if I'm wrong. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message