Re: Security risk if webadmin is below port 1024 ????????

[David K. <drk...@nt...>]

Herb Parsons wrote:
> 
> Are you sure they restrict high ports, those over 1024? Most firewalls, even using standard settings, will allow port numbers over 1024 to pass through. It's the standard low ports that can cause problems and are filtered out.


I set up my unix machine yesterday, with webadmin on port 10,000 and
apache on port 80. I could access the apache server, but not the
webadmin. I've now set up webadmin on port 80, so will try that today
from work, but my belief is that they must filter ports above 1024. 


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