Kazaa and iptables

Justin Bennett justin.bennett at dynabrade.com
Wed Apr 23 08:02:52 EDT 2003


I'm loading it up now, I'll get out the good old packet sniffer and see 
what I can come up with.



Justin Bennett wrote:

> I found some info, they say to block 1214, but others say kazaa just 
> uses a diffrent port if that one is blocked. I don't know enough about 
> how Kazaa works to know if thats true. If it connects to a central 
> server or not (like napster) first if so maybe blocking that can stop 
> it... Let me know what you find I'll keep looking too.
>
> Thanks
> Justin
>
>
> Cyber Source wrote:
>
>> I took a quick look into our shorewall config here because I could have
>> sworn I saw a commented out section for Kazaa in there but I couldn't
>> find it this morning. I was looking for the port number for you and even
>> in a quick search on Google, found no quick location of the port Kazaa
>> uses. If I find it I will pass it on.
>> On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 07:31, Justin Bennett wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> A buddy of mine asked me to block Kazaa for him on his Frat's dsl 
>>> connection, he has a linux fw/router using iptables. I have not used 
>>> kazaa anyone have a rule to block it.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Justin
>>>   
>>

-- 
Justin Bennett
Network Administrator
RHCE (Redhat Certified Linux Engineer)
Dynabrade, Inc.
8989 Sheridan Dr.
Clarence, NY 14031
 





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