Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 23:15:00 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Daniel Schrock <d_jab@anonymous-daemon.org> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to open ports for traffic? Message-ID: <20000620231500.F469@dialin-client.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <00c601bfdb3e$dfcd6b20$0271a8c0@anonymousdaemon.org>; from djab@enteract.com on Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 12:09:27AM -0500 References: <00c601bfdb3e$dfcd6b20$0271a8c0@anonymousdaemon.org>
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On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 12:09:27AM -0500, Daniel Schrock wrote: > This may seem odd, but it is of dire importance (at least to my roommate) > With everyone trying to close ports from the outside world, how would I open > ports up? Have something listen on them. > The ports in question are not normally even listed in /etc/services (they > are game ports-one tcp/udp...5 udp...in the 21000 range) > > They have now been added to /etc/services but still seem to be > blocked. How are they blocked? What is the symptom? > i > tried, on a crap shoot, to add them to inetd but got unknown service errors > when i tried to add them as internal. I got syntax errors when i tried to > add them with out a server directive. Expected. > There is no application/daemon that needs to be run. They just need to be > open so we can communicate with the game server. No, something _does_ have to be run. Something must be listening or opening the ports. > I'm running ipnat and ipfilter, which is supposedly letting the ports go > through both ways, at least trafshow is listing the ports by name, not > number, so /etc/services is definitely being read. > > Anyone got any advice? What is not working? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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