Re: allowing news out

On zondag, jul 6, 2003, at 22:51 Europe/Amsterdam, dave wrote:

> Hello,
> I've got an ipfilter firewall that i'm tightening down. I'm
> allowing out
> only specific services, right now the one i'd like to let out is news,
> port
> 119 i believe, ntp is another one, port 123 i think.
> For news i've got internal clients using outlook express to
> connect to
> my isp's nntp server, but the firewall isn't letting the traffic out
> or in,
> it seems as if the source ports change, ntp is the same way. Any
> suggestions?
> Thanks.
> Dave.
>
>

source ports change for clients, destination ports on the servers do
not.

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