I like to seed open source software, particularly Ubuntu family, from a machine which is mostly set aside just for this.
I am using Ktorrent in Kubuntu 6.06.1, and Firestarter as a firewall management app. I am no expert so the gui is very welcomed. I believe I have set the firewall settings to the minimum for web browsing or torrent use. Web browsing, ftp downloads to my machine, and Torrents to and from my machine seem to work ok. My Firestarter firewall settings are as follows: Outbound traffic Policy: Restrictive by default, whitelist traffic allowed service, port, who: HTTP 80 everyone HTTPS 443everyone FTP 20-21 Bittorrent 6881-688 everyone Inbound traffic Policy: allowed service, port, who: HTTP 80 everyone HTTPS 443 everyone Bittorrent 6881-6889 everyone However, I see that a lot of attempted outward bound connections are 'blocked'. At least, the Source is stated as my pc (fixed) IP within my LAN, various port numbers presumably exit ports (?), and various destination IPs, Length is always 44, TOS is 0x00, Protocol is always TCP, Service is mostly 'unknown' but with a good scattering of such as gnutella, gatecrasher, MS IPSecNATT-T, eDonkey, webadmin, exec. Services as above seem associated with windows trojans stuff (?) I find it hard to believe that alien software has been installed on this machine, easy to believe that there may be windows malware associated with torrents, although I am only associated with linux and open source at my end. It is also hard to believe that ktorrent would be responding to undesired requests (??) Is anything wrong, need changing etc? Comments about the large number of blocked outgoing connections would be most welcomed. tia -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
