I would like to thank everyone for their responses to this question.
Jamin W. Collins
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> Port 113 is used by remote machines to find out who is trying to connect
> to their machine. One of the biggest uses is by IRC servers to limit
> users to one connection at a time, but
Jamin Collins wrote:
>
> This is most likely a stupid question and I'm sure it probably been answered
> elsewhere. However, I haven't been able to locate a good answer on it.
> What is port 113 used for normally, and should I have this port accessible
> on my company's firewall? I'm asking beca
>From /etc/services:
auth113/tcp authentication tap ident
It is used for the ident daemon (best I can tell) - It's not blocked on my
machine, either. I don't know if blocking it breaks anything or not...
> -Original Message-
> From: Jamin Collins [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTEC
Jamin Collins wrote:
> This is most likely a stupid question and I'm sure it probably been answered
> elsewhere. However, I haven't been able to locate a good answer on it.
> What is port 113 used for normally, and should I have this port accessible
> on my company's firewall? I'm asking becaus
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Jamin Collins wrote:
> This is most likely a stupid question and I'm sure it probably been answered
> elsewhere. However, I haven't been able to locate a good answer on it.
> What is port 113 used for normally, and should I have this port accessible
> on my company's firewal
