Opening specific (custom) port [Was: Re: [Firehol-support] Re: whitelisting]

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 08:38:10PM +0200, Spike Spiegel wrote:
> Actually I needed to open access to port 8080. After some reading about
> "how to add services" I ended adding this line:
> server custom http_proxy tcp/8080 default accept
> right above the "client all accept" line.

Daniel Pittman already explained the server/client_..._ports way,
but for port 8080 you can use the already defined "webcache"
service.

Look at http://firehol.sourceforge.net/services.html?#webcache
together with /etc/services

Thomas

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