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How can I put the Windows XP firewall into an “allow all” port configuration and only block certain ports?

Without going into too much detail on why I need to do this, I'm trying to put the Windows XP Firewall into an allow all ports configuration, and only deny certain ports I have in a list. I've ...
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http ftp imap smtp and some additional ports not working

I'm writing this using a 3G connection on my phone. At lunch time yesterday, the ports above and a few additional other ports like 40001 and 4089 stopped working on my internet connection at work. ...
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OSX: how to check what is taking ports or sockets

I am having trouble with L2TP/IPSec on my OS X 10.7.2 machine and I was wondering what is the best way to figure out which process is taking particular sockets or ports; My related posts (below), ...
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OS X: how to figure out what prevents L2TP/IPSec from running correctly

It seems that an old installation of Cisco Anyconnect prevents the OS X built-in L2TP/IPSec client from running (I posted a question here: OS X 10.7, can't log into any L2TP VPN server, but didn't ...
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Stopping Apache from listening in port 443?

Pretty self-explanatory. Is there any way I can make Apache stop listening in port 443 (Https). So that it only listens on port 80 (http)? I'm working on a Windows 7 PC. Edit 1: I installed Apache ...
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Can't free up port 80, no matter what I try

Trying to get WAMP working again, and testing to see that the Apache server is working. It keep saying port 80 is being used by Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0 - I've removed IIS, I've removed SQL ...
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Does a webserver need to have outgoing port 80 blocked for security reasons?

At work, we've got Windows Server 2008 running. I've set up XAMPP, and a few websites - everything works perfectly. However, outgoing port 80 is blocked in the firewall for 'security' reasons. I was ...
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What does it take to get software added to FreeBSD ports system? [closed]

What does it take to get software added to FreeBSD official ports system?
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How can I open listen ports on an Amazon EC2 instance?

I'm using Amazon EC2 micro instance with Ubuntu 11.04 on it (official AMI by Canonical). I have created a new security group for this instance: Inbound: 22 (SSH) 0.0.0.0/0 80 (HTTP) 0.0.0.0/0 ...
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What is the range of ports that is usually used in the traceroute command?

I wanted to know if there is a range which is usually used for destination port that is used in traceroute command. Like the starting address for destination port is 33434. but is there some standard ...
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lighttpd cant bind port permission denied

I installed lighttpd, tried to run it service lighttpd start and got error like the one i post below. Please dont give me that crap about needing root (because I am root) or about ports higher than ...
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Why don't p2p connections need open ports?

I mean, if someone is downloading a file from me, doesn't that means that I'm the host and he is connecting to me? Or am I connecting to him? Either way one of us need an open port, no? I don't ...
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Keyboard partially stops working while playing games

I've recently got back into playing some PC games (mainly indie - I've been playing Minecraft, VVVVVV and Super Meat Boy mainly) however, yesterday I started to have a few problems while playing any ...
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Broken and missing prongs from usb ports

can i get replacement slots that fit in usb ports the prongs are bent and unworking on 1 port and the other came out when charging a device in port.When trying to retrieve it. the pronged plastic ...
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What is USB root Hub?

What is a USB root Hub ? My computer shows 3 USB root Hubs in the device manager. 1st USB root hubs show 4 Ports, 2nd shows 3 ports and the 3rd shows 8 Ports are available. However my Computer have ...
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Security Error with Server, need to be able to access specific ports [closed]

Whenever I want to play the Web App Realm of the Mad God (Unimportant what it is), I am faced with a security error. I researched it, and it appears that I need to connect on ports of 843 and 2050. ...
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Blocking ports with iptables

I have a server with multiple interfaces (IPs). I'd like to block all ports on one of the IPs (I don't want to change anything for other IPs/interfaces), but allow outgoing connections from it. For ...
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Cross-platform implementation of GNU tools? (Preferably Java)

I'd like to have GNU tools available on multiple platforms, behaving the same. I know there are ports, like http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/, but they are different from what's supported by the linux ...
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Ports for NAT'ed Windows share

Simple question: I have a NATed Linux at home that hosts a couple of samba shares. What Ports should I forward from the router to the Linux box so as to be able to access those shares from the ...
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How can I disable these Windows-specific ports?

Let's see what ports are opened by which processes, taking those that are specific to Windows itself: C:\Windows\system32>netstat -anb Active Connections Proto Local Address Foreign ...
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VPN Incoming Ports

For the past few years, I have been stuck with mobile broadband connections, which block all incoming traffic for all ports. This has made it impossible for me to do things like play multiplayer games ...
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How do I open a port in Ubuntu when

My wireless is listening on 192.168.1.4 SSH is listening on 192.168.1.4:22 No firewall is running TCP wrappers are not configured, I can connect wirelessly to the Internet My kernel logs show that ...
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Use serial port (COM) as LPT1

I have a device that needs to be plugged in to LPT1 to run a legacy software. I am trying to find a workaround to get it running in a latptop (without parallel port, obviously). I have HL-340 ...
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closing open TCP ports under WinXP SP3

I must confess I have not been very security-conscious over the last few years, and I just did an NMAP scan of my computer to see how it was doing. The results amazed me. There were literally ...
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How do I change my SSH *outgoing* port on OSX?

Trying ssh -p 51685 seems to change the port that I'm trying to connect to, not my outgoing port. As does editing ssh_config. I want to change my outgoing port from 22 (which is blocked) to 51685. ...
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How to find exe listening on port?

I try with netstat -ab -p tcp -n and among the results get: TCP 0.0.0.0:47001 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING Can not obtain ownership information I am running as administrator and ...
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How to change mysql port

I'm using wampserver. And suddenly mysql wouldn't work. I checked curports from nirsoft and it has red highlight on it. What does it mean?How do I solve this so that I could use mysql again. I'm ...
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Accessing non-port80 web server using IPv6

In a normal IPv4 network, I can go into any browser such as Firefox and browse a server on a IPv4 address not hosted on port 80: http://192.168.42.6:8080/ This accesses the server on port 8080 on ...
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Netstat -a command : Difference between 0.0.0.0 and 127.0.0.1

When running netstat -a on my local machine, i see ports on the 0.0.0.0 address listening. I would assume that 0.0.0.0 is my local machine, except that i also see 127.0.0.1 listening to specific ...
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Stealth Ports even while communicating?

I was using a port probing site/program called ShieldsUp! to scan my ports. It reported back that all of my ports were "stealth", and in their words Your system has achieved a perfect "TruStealth" ...
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Port forwarding - ports STILL not open with W7 firewall disabled, and router configured correctly

I am trying to forward some ports to no avail. I have added the range definitions to my routers setup page, as well as W7 firewall (which is now disabled mind you) and it's still coming back as ...
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Which Ports manager to use on FreeBSD? (8.0 and above)

There is no clear answer which one to use on the net. Tried searching but couldn't dig up anything useful. Also, the user manual mentions them altogether, won't list the advantages/disadvantages, ...
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Use default options when compiling ports

I am compiling a few ports on FreeBSD, however during the compiling process I am often greeted with options for the dependencies of the port. This causes the compiling process to pause until I select ...
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Safe to use high port numbers? (re: obscuring web services)

I have a small home network and I'm trying to balance the need for security versus convenience. The safest way to secure internal web servers is to only connect using VPNs but this seems overkill to ...
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Firewall configuration for Windows 7 and the Greenbow VPN client

I'm looking for the correct firewall/router settings to get the Greenbow VPN client to work with Windows 7 64-bit. It never seems to get past phase 1 in the connection process.