FC4 : Funny entries in iptable

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Sun Apr 16 17:44:02 UTC 2006


>>>>> "yy" == yukku yukkoooooo <yukku19752000 at yahoo.com> writes:

yy> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp --dport 5353 -d 224.0.0.251 -j
yy> ACCEPT

So that you can receive multicast DNS packets which are part of
zeroconf, enabling you to find available network services without
configuration.

yy> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT

So that you can receive the CUPS printer availability broadcasts from
the network.

 - J<




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