quick question regarding firewalls

p3nguin · Apprentice Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Posts: 188 Location: ~/

I have the Linux Firewall running at the moment on my router box. I was just wondering, if it says it blocks all ports by default to begin wtih and any ports i want open i must forward, how come I didnt forward the dcc ports for irssi and I can still recieve dcc sends?

dsd · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:37 pm Post subject:

it sounds like you are blocking all incoming connections (unless the ports are opened&forwarded), but allowing all outbound connections.

to recieve a file over DCC involves you connecting to the senders computer (IIRC). at your end, incoming connections are not involved.
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