Kazaa and iptables

[Mark Musone]

Heh...you're gonna be chasing it for a while :^) it port hops
around..you can't just filter out ports :^)



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
Justin Bennett
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 8:17 AM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: Kazaa and iptables

I tried blocking 1241 It still works. I see stuff on 1697, I'll try 
blocking that. I blocked that now it's on 1699. It seems to keep moving 
the ports to an open one.


Justin Bennett wrote:

> 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
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>

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