Newsgroup - need any open ports on the users computer?

[Jim Cornette]

William Hooper wrote:
> Jim Cornette said:
> [snip]
> 
>>I had some firewall setup problems, I added 119:tcp and also 119:udp to
>>the rules via s-c-securitylevel, are both these entries needed for
>>newsgroup access?
> 
> 
> I would think that the outbound 119:tcp port would be needed.  NNTP is a
> plain text protocol.  It's kind of like POP3 and IMAP in that if you can
> "speak the language" you can do it all with telnet.
> 
> You shouldn't need any specific inbound ports open.
> 

No extra ports needed to be added afterall. The news service works fine 
without the added rules. I was probably just catching the 
news.redhat.com server at a busy time for the earlier failure to happen.

Thanks,
Jim

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