Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 20:05:52 -0400 From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> To: Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net> Cc: Nick Rogness <nick@rapidnet.com>, Gregory Carvalho <GregoryC@stcinc.com>, "freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ports and applications Message-ID: <376052E0.6D8FFF3D@confusion.net> References: <375F7453.77C0F526@stcinc.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906101501260.33002-100000@rapidnet.com> <19990610170151.D843@dub.net>
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Just how would you go about running telnet on port 80?
Bill Swingle wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 03:07:39PM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Gregory Carvalho wrote:
> >
> > > Using ipfw I am allowing port 80 through the wall (could you imagine if
> > > I denied the good people of Gotham their web fix). Suppose I deny
> > > telnet, but some external server has its telnet server configured for
> > > port 80. Is there a method to prevent the telnet session from operating?
> >
> > Why would anyone run telnet on port 80?
> >
> > Is this an incoming or outgoing telnet session? I'm assuming
> > outoing telnet sessions. The only thing I can think of is running
> > the machines through a proxy server.
>
> Once, while working for a rather fascist employer that denied outgoing
> connections on ports 22/23 I set up telnet, then later sshd, on port 80
> on my home machine. They employers couldnt do without their web access
> it seems :) I think this is what the original writer is trying to avoid.
> :)
>
> -Bill
>
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Windows 98: n.
useless extension to a minor patch release for
32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a
16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor,
written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for
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