Paul Allen Newell wrote: > To all: > > With help from Craig and Reindl, I've understood what happens with the > automated entry of port 631 for udp/tcp and how to rewrite to not make > it a world access (in/out) rule. Waiting for next install of F16 to test > when and how the automated entry happens. > > I saw this entry in iptables but decided to wait on asking about it > until I understood port 631: > +++ > -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 5353 -d 224.0.0.251 > -j ACCEPT > +++ > > I know I didn't add it. From what I can tell, port 224.0.0.251 has to do > with "multicast DNS". Everything I see about port 5353 involves Macs. > > My gut says that, since I have no Macs, this must be something that got > added when I installed my printer and that CUPS/whatever did a blanket > automated entry to cover any issues if I had a Mac on my net. > > Can anyone tell me if I am right (or, if not, what it really is). I feel > I should be able to blast it from iptables without having any problems, > but want some better minds to comment first. > > Thanks, > Paul http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2007-November/msg00389.html and - UDP is stateless, thus no "-m state --state NEW". -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
