[vox-tech] firewall question

[Peter Jay Salzman]

for the record, i did not ask what udp ports are for.  i asked what
80/udp and 22/udp were used for.


pete (who is tempted to go back to his logs and find out who 
      did such a poor job of quoting my question)


begin Ricardo Anguiano <reanguiano@yahoo.com> 
> 
> Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org> writes:
> > what exactly are the udp ports used for?  
> 
> most streaming media servers. nfs also uses udp.
> 
> > is there any reason to open them up?
> 
> Only if you are running something that listens on udp ports.  Check with
> lsof.
> 
> -Ricardo

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