How to Find Open/Close Ports and Bypass a Port?

[Tim]

On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 15:30 +0200, Andras Simon wrote:
> (As an aside, I use a port that is blocked both by my router and
> iptables on the machine, and azureus still works. I'm not sure if I
> should be happy about this.) 

Are you talking about outgoing or incoming ports being blocked by your
rules.  If you don't block outgoing ports, then your client can make
connections.

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[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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