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On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Nick Khamis <symack@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Neal, |
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> As for the --sport flag for OUTPUT, should it not be left arbitrary? |
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> The SSH daemon should use unprivileged ports between 1024 and 65535. |
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> The only daemon I know thus far that does not is NTP which is |
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> hardwired to 123 both ways. |
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Most daemons send/receive on the same port on the server. The port |
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used by the /client/ is generally random. |
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An exception would be an FTP daemon, which uses port 20 for active |
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mode data connections, but a random port for passive data connections. |
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FTP is weird like that. |