[TriLUG] Opening up a closed port

Jerry M. Howell II jmhowell at jmhowell.com
Thu Jun 19 11:07:44 EDT 2003


On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:58:18AM -0400, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 10:51, Jerry M. Howell II wrote:
> > Ok I know I should know how to do this
> > but how do I open up a port thats closed.
> > I have an app thats calling for port 3333.
> > thnx.
> 
> Do you mean that you have a firewall running on your Linux server that's
> blocking the port?
> 
> If so, you'll need to use the procedure documented by your firewall
> script or program to allow access to that port.
> 
> What distribution, version, and firewall program are you using?
> 
Sorry about that, should have included that info in the last email. I am
using slackware 9, no firewall. If I telnet or ssh to that port it just
refuses conection. BTW, this app i'm tring to use is a gtk plugin to
nagios.


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Jerry M. Howell II



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