Blocked Ports

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Mon Mar 19 07:18:04 UTC 2012


On 03/19/2012 12:21 PM, Mike Dwiggins wrote:
> I need to use Ports 27177 and 27178 but, every Port Checker I can find says they
> are blocked.
>
> My iptables setup ( for ) now is:
>
> Incoming Packages-   Accept
> Forwarded Packets-  Accept
> Outgoing Packets-     Accept
>
> The way I understand it, that means NO Ports should be blocked.  Am I barking up
> the wrong tree and need to be checking with my ISP?
>
> I think I should be but am just looking for a sanity check!
>
>

Do you have a service running on those ports?  If you don't they will show up as
"closed" even if not blocked by a firewall.




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