Re: [Mldonkey-users] mldonkey and firewalls

[Alexander Gretencord]

On Thursday 05 September 2002 22:22, Goswin Brederlow wrote:

> > 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.

I never said not to allow them. I think I pretty clearly stated to give 
mldonkey its own user so you _can_ open _every_ port, but just for mldonkey. 


Alex

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