Re: firewalling high-numbered ports (WAS: [PLUG] Problems with Apache and FTP)

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 01:39:32PM -0400, Philip Ravenscroft wrote:
> This lets in all non-SYN packets that originate on port 80 (e.g.
> return requests when I browse a Web site).

Actually, http requests don't originate on port 80, they originate on
some other port that's higher than 1024.  The server's responses
originate on port 80, though.

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