Iptables and emerging

neomatrix35 · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2004 Posts: 53

Maybe I'm just not searching hard enough but does anyone know what ports and/or protocols emerge use. My firewall config drops input by default and in order to emerge anything I have to change the default to ACCEPT. I'd rather not do that... but until I find out what port is being used I guess I'll have to but I need/want a solution as soon as possible.

Any help would be great.

moocha · Watchman Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 5722

Emerge (i.e. portage) as such doesn't use any ports. It uses rsync to sync the portage tree (rsync uses 873/tcp) and http and/or ftp to download (http is 80/tcp, and ftp is 20/tcp and 21/tcp).
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neomatrix35 · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2004 Posts: 53

cool thx... i'll give accepting from -p tcp 873 a whirl... the others i already have accepting