Re: LYNX-DEV v2.7 bug fix update

[Duncan Hill]

On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Klaus Weide wrote:

> > > * Added protection in LYGetFile.c against connections to the port 25
> > >   ESMTP service. - FM
> > 
> > Oops!  Forget ftp.  Anyhow, 0-20 and 22-69?  (No direct Telnet allowed,
> > right?)
> 
> 25 is not ftp.

As far as I can tell from looking at my /etc/services file, all Lynx needs
to access is:
21 - ftp
25 - smtp
70 - gopher
80 - web
119 - nntp?
42/53 - nameserver?

23 is spawned off to a telnet client.  If one wanted to get paranoid, one
could say aloow connects to those and only those, but then we have a
problem is someone runs a httpd on port 3005 or something.  I wonder what
happens if I try connecting to a MUD via lynx..cool, I get the login
screen. 

Duncan Hill
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