Azureus open ports - security problem?
Laurence Vanek
lvanek at charter.net
Sat Apr 8 05:18:56 UTC 2006
Have in the past used (with FC4) Bittorrent with my firewall which tests
as "stealth" when tested with shieldsup on https://www.grc.com. I did
not need to do anything special with regard to opening up my firewall to
expose a certain port. Perhaps Bittorrent has a way around this.
Azureus is a different matter. Apparently I need to open the firewall
to expose certain ports for it to work. Otherwise, I get the infamous
"NAT problem" when configuring it. If that is the case, isnt this a
security problem with port(s) open when Azureus is not in use. Surely
not many are going go thru an open & close port cycle after every use of
Azureus.
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