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Date:      Mon, 2 Jan 2017 21:50:51 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Maxim Konovalov <maxim.konovalov@gmail.com>
Cc:        Warren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org>, doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r49600 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701022145290.98030@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701021904430.83306@mp2.macomnet.net>
References:  <201610281531.u9SFVL7u096914@repo.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701021904430.83306@mp2.macomnet.net>

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On Mon, 2 Jan 2017, Maxim Konovalov wrote:

> Hi Warren,
>
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2016, 15:31-0000, Warren Block wrote:
>
> [...]
>>  # Allow outbound NTP
>> -&dollar;cmd 00260 allow tcp from any to any 37 out via &dollar;pif setup keep-state
>> +&dollar;cmd 00260 allow udp from any to any 123 out via &dollar;pif setup keep-state
>>
>>  # Allow outbound SSH
>>  &dollar;cmd 00280 allow tcp from any to any 22 out via &dollar;pif setup keep-state
>>
> Are you sure about this change?  NTP is UDP based protocol.  In the
> same time "setup" is TCP only feature (why ipfw(8) allows it to use in
> conjunction with the UDP proto is a different story)
>
> I think the comment is what should be fixed here.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213365 suggested 
merely changing this to UDP 123.  I don't use IPFW, so can't verify 
the actual usage. Help would be appreciated.



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