[NTLUG:Discuss] Allocating Port addresses.

[joseph beasley]

Filtered meaning nmap connected to the port, but something (iptables)
is not allowing the connection.  

--- terry <kj5zr at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Steve Baker wrote:
> > MadHat wrote:
> > 
> >> #       http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
> >>
> >> I would start there.  Basically, all you can really do is pick one
> not 
> >> in use.  But you will almost always find some app that already
> uses 
> >> the port you want to use.
> > 
> > 
> > :-(
> > 
> > Oh.  That's exactly what I hoped *wouldn't* be the case.
> > 
> > Well - I guess the smart move would be to pick some very popular
> > game and use the same port they do.  People rarely try to play
> > too games at once - and I'd guess that the port number that popular
> > games used are only blocked in places where my port should be
> blocked
> > too.
> >
> 
> Speaking of being blocked, if that's the case, will nmap report that
> the 
>   port is "filtered"?  In other words, what does nmap mean when it
> says 
> "filtered"?
> 
> 
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