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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


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