Re: [Mldonkey-users] mldonkey and firewalls

[Goswin Brederlow]

Alexander Gretencord <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thursday 05 September 2002 12:18, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > mldonkey as its own user and allow all outgoing connects of that user.
> 
> Huh ? You don't do that anyway ? As far as I'm concerned I don't trust 
> mldonkey too much and gave it its own user pretty much from the beginning. 
> That way you can just open ports for mldonkey as you stated and can 'MARK' 
> everything coming from mldonkey for your traffic shaper, so it doesn't matter 
> if the upload limits in mldonkey don't work :)

So the why not allow connects to any (user) port from mldonkey?
If someone finds a backdoor in mldonkey he could connect to the
standard port on his comp and get in anyway. It doesn't make mldonkey
saver to disalow non default ports and you greatly suffer in speed.

MfG
        Goswin