On Friday 13 September 2013, Jonas Kellens wrote: > On 09/13/2013 11:41 AM, Andrew Colin wrote: > > Normally you should open ports 10000-20000 udp > > > > On 9/13/2013 11:37 AM, Jonas Kellens wrote: > >> I now see that an IP-address gets blocked by my firewall because > >> there are packets coming onto port 11955. > > Why do I need such a big range ? That's like for 250 concurrent calls !
Having a port open really is not a big deal, unless there's a daemon listening on it. In the Windows world, where you usually don't get the Source Code, you never know what is running on your computer; in which case, you are never sure that there isn't a daemon listening on a particular port number, so it is wise in that case not to leave ports open unnecessarily. (Though not half as wise as just not running un-audited software in the first place .....) But this is the Open Source world, and we have the advantage of knowing exactly what is running our computers. Open ports going nowhere simply are not a security concern this side of the fence. -- AJS Answers come *after* questions. -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
