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Subject: Re: TALK - any known problems with allowing access from the outside
From: Bernhard . Schneck @ Physik . TU-Muenchen . DE
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 18:05:47 +0100
To: Firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jan 94 09:28:06 GMT." <9401260928 . AA07221 @ zen . UK . Sun . COM>

 > {}  	Currently, we have TALK blocked, but I have a user who needs/wants
 > {}  	to be able to use talk to communicate with a collegue outside
 > {}  	of our network.  Any big problems with allowing this access?

Anyway, talk uses it's UDP port (517/518) just to tell each side which
TCP ports to use, and these are allocated on demand (and thus hard to
filter).

IRC *might* be better/easier to control (most IRC servers use either
TCP/194 or TCP/6667), but beware of the `mail' and `ctc' messages
within IRC.


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