Any danger from these ports?

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

man, 10.01.2005 kl. 17.35 skrev Jeff Spaleta:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:49:56 +0000, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha 
> > Not a default for servers, surely?
> 
> In my mind, i think its perfectly acceptible that any 'server'  would
> be required to change the firewall settings from the non-default as
> part of its configuration.  The default firewall rules don't allow
> most services from being seen from clients already. Is http allowed
> through by default in fedora's firewall or do you have to configure
> the firewall to let it through?
> If the securitylevel tool included the ability to disable the default
> ipt_recent ruleset wouldn't that be enough to satify server
> configuration needs? If this were a check-box in the
> firewall/securitylevel setup pane during install or firstboot would
> that be too heavy a burden?

Hmm... Just thougth i should mention it, when i switched on "allow FTP"
on system-config-network on a fedora box a year ago, it did fail to open
ports for passive FTP...