On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, James Proffer wrote:
> What I do not understand (maybe someone on this list can explain) is why
> TCP ports 53 and 67 are rejected. UDP port 53 (DNS) I can understand but
> TCP port 53 traffic is AFAIK only used for zone transfers. For port 67 I
TCP is also used by DNS for stuff that's too big for UDP.
> am totally puzzled.
Well, I've seen other filtering firewalls that reject packets if the host
OS is listening on a port, so if bootpd or dhcpd is listening maybe that's
the behaviour that you're experiencing. It's an easy thing to check.
Paul
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