Does gpg use bind(2) at all? I guess when retrieving keys it only uses connect(), so there shouldn't be a problem with NAT and inbound connections and stuffs...
Cheers, Jesse On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Malte Gell<malte.g...@gmx.de> wrote: > > David Shaw <ds...@jabberwocky.com> wrote > >> On Jun 29, 2009, at 8:43 AM, Malte Gell wrote: >> > I would like to define a fixed port number (the same 11371) for gpg >> > which waits >> > for the answer from the keyserver. Can I tell gpg at which port to >> > listen? > >> If I understand your question, you're trying to set the *local* port >> number that GPG uses when binding the socket to talk to a keyserver? > > Yep. My machine is connected to a router that blocks incoming traffic. If I > could assign a fixed port for gpg --search-key I could open this port for > incoming traffic. At the moment gpg uses a different port each time i use gpg > -- > search-key for incoming traffic and so i cant specify a rule. > The funny thing I dont understand, when surfing the web, Firefox of course > also > uses high ports for receiving data and these don't get blocked...(which is not > desired of course) _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
