Firewalls: archie and UDP

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(March 1993)

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Subject:	archie and UDP
From:	jxh @ ICD . Teradyne . COM (Jim Hickstein)
Date:	Wed, 3 Mar 93 19:03:45 PST
To:	firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM

My archie client seems to want me to let UDP packets to ports >1000
through my router to/from my firewall.  Isn't this a Bad Idea?  Must I
tell my users that they should telnet somewhere, instead?

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