On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 12:41:56PM +0800, Ina Patricia Lopez wrote:
> is it safe to allow fwhois/whois port on my firewall box itself?
> or allow another machine inside my firewall to use port 43? i am
> trying to ID the ip's that are being logged on my firewall.
If you simply want to use a whois _client_, there's no need to punch
holes on your firewall. A properly behaved client should always use
non-privileged ports. If your whois client insists on using port 43,
replace it.
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale
returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
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