Re: for those not allowing exiting - reasonably safe ports

[patgus <patgus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 110 & 995 for receiving email should not cause too many problems either.

On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 01:51:11 -0500
Void Beast <daemonik.dragon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> It would be worth noting also that MSN Chat runs on 6667 as it uses an
> implementation of the ircx protocol as well. Take that as you will, but
> coming from someone who writes amateur irc bots for MSN, it is just as bad
> on the abuse level as other IRC channels, only more popular.
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> Beast
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> Daniel wrote:
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>  >They won't necessarily use your node to launch DoS attacks.  They'll
>  >annoy the heck out of people on IRC, abuse channels and users, etc., and
>  >then in frustration the people they've annoyed will then launch a DoS
>  >attack against you.  Either that, or they complain to your ISP and you
>  >run the risk of being shut down.
>  >
>  >Daniel
>  >
>  >Glymr Darkmoon wrote:
>  >
>  >>hm weird, i've only got those ports open on mine, but i have
>  >>rate-limited it to half my outbound traffic speed (which is 64kbit), so
>  >>i dunno. i think 3kb/s doesn't allow much in the way dos attacking
>  >>anyway. haven't had a problem yet.
>  >>
>  >>On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 22:23:32 -0800, "Greg Hewgill" <ghewgill@xxxxxxxxx>
>  >>said:
>  >>
>  >>>On 2/1/06, Glymr Darkmoon <glymr_darkmoon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>  >>>
>  >>>>probably one should add 6667 and 6601 and 994 for irc, irc also does
>  >>>>not do file transfers on these ports... 706 for silc as well
>  >>>
>  >>>Allowing an IRC exit node just about got me shut down by my hosting
>  >>>provider. IRC is a popular avenue for abuse and will invite serious DoS
>  >>>attacks against your tor node.
>  >>>
>  >>>Greg Hewgill
>  >>>http://hewgill.com
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