How to Find Open/Close Ports and Bypass a Port?

[Andras Simon]

On 7/20/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 15:30 +0200, Andras Simon wrote:
> > (As an aside, I use a port that is blocked both by my router and
> > iptables on the machine, and azureus still works. I'm not sure if I
> > should be happy about this.)
>
> Are you talking about outgoing or incoming ports being blocked by your
> rules.  If you don't block outgoing ports, then your client can make
> connections.

Incoming only. After using azureus for years, now I finally know why
it works :-)
Thanks,

Andras