Re: LYNX-DEV v2.7 bug fix update

[Alan Cox]

On 14 Mar, Duncan Hill wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Klaus Weide wrote:
> 
>> > > * Added protection in LYGetFile.c against connections to the port 25
>> > >   ESMTP service. - FM
>> > 
>> > Oops!  Forget ftp.  Anyhow, 0-20 and 22-69?  (No direct Telnet allowed,
>> > right?)
>> 
>> 25 is not ftp.
> 
> As far as I can tell from looking at my /etc/services file, all Lynx needs
> to access is:
> 21 - ftp
> 25 - smtp
> 70 - gopher
> 80 - web
> 119 - nntp?
> 42/53 - nameserver?

I know folks with web servers on :70, with web servers on :81 :82 ...
etc just block the silly ones nothing else

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