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Date:	Sun, 25 Jul 2004 23:10:13 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Help with netstat -s

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In <200407251354.1748733.24@scoug.com>, on 07/25/04
at 01:54 PM, "Harry Motin" said:

>Thanks Peter and Steven. I guess for now, if I restrict all out going
>communications to ports 21, 25 and 80 (FTP, SMTP and WWW), that should
>put my machine at a higher security level.

I'm curious as to what you expect to accomplish by this.

Generally, one allows outbound connections to anywhere, unless one is
attempting to prevent employees from playing too much.

Blocking inbound connections reduces traffic on the LAN, but really does
not accomplish much. The only port I bother to block is 1900 because it
tends to be noisy.

HTH,

Steven

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