Re: sendmail : dport 25 , sport 25 or both?

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On Thursday 22 January 2004 11:42, Ted Kaczmarek wrote:
> If the daemon listens on port 25, then the connection will be destined
> to it on port 25.

yes . 

> So
> Input chain allows destination port 25
> Output chain allows source port 25

OK.

> Do you have a specific need for blocking all output packets?

yes . security reason . i think if someone has succeded intrusion , i could 
block outgoing traffic , so that it would not be easy for him to manage 
it ... is it crazzy ? :-) 

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