Re: Re: Strange ports

["Tim Shea" <tim@tshea.net>]

Per the original note - this was a scan of an external firewall.

There is no reason for udp/53 to be open unless this is a stateless
firewall (doubtful per the scan).  Internal clients would be coming
through the internal interface of the firewall and udp/53 would need to be
opened on that interface not the external interface.

But to be quite frank - I am shocked how many people are weighing in on
what "needs to be opened" without knowing one single requirement.  He
asked an opinion on a couple of ports.  What is opened or not depends upon
that companies architecture and how they have things deployed.  He needs
to work with those folks to determine what is valid or not.

t.s


> I would agree that port 53 UDP needs to be open.  Port 53 TCP does not
> unless you are doing large DNS zone transfers.
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