Re: Newsgroup - need any open ports on the users computer?
From: Jim Cornette (fc-cornette_at_insight.rr.com)
Date: 02/10/05
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 07:53:52 -0500 To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
William Hooper wrote:
> Jim Cornette said:
> [snip]
>
>>I had some firewall setup problems, I added 119:tcp and also 119:udp to
>>the rules via s-c-securitylevel, are both these entries needed for
>>newsgroup access?
>
>
> I would think that the outbound 119:tcp port would be needed. NNTP is a
> plain text protocol. It's kind of like POP3 and IMAP in that if you can
> "speak the language" you can do it all with telnet.
>
> You shouldn't need any specific inbound ports open.
>
No extra ports needed to be added afterall. The news service works fine
without the added rules. I was probably just catching the
news.redhat.com server at a busy time for the earlier failure to happen.
Thanks,
Jim
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