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what are the Kazaa ports?
Name: n00blike Date: December 13, 2003 at 19:24:57 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: p4 1.3/521
Comment:
what ports does kazaa use? would you recomend me opening them?
Name: Dan Date: December 14, 2003 at 01:19:10 Pacific
Reply:
Too many ports to list. The safest thing to do would not use Kazaa, but I know that usually isn't an option. I would recommend setting up a software firewall, and allow this program to communicate any way it wants. After running a packet sniffer, I see that Kazaa is using ports over 1214 up to 4800. For more details, get a program called ethereal and do a packet sniff on your network to check the ports. Ports are pretty safe to leave open above 1023 (of course there are ports you want to close, for example the sql slammer runs on 1434, w32.blaster on 4444, so on - make sure you research ports to close above 1023). Hope that helps.
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