[ale] Alternative port to 80 for web server

Ott Miidla kylaline at hotmail.com
Thu Feb 7 13:00:24 EST 2002


you might want to check out http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
for some free ports though ;)

ott



> Actually I'm doing that already, but now I would like to open up my
website
> for clients to view. I figured I would use an obscure port number so that
> not just anyone (and all the NIMBA and code red requests) can get in. I
was
> thinking it would be more secure. I'm going to set it up so all outside
tcp
> traffic is dropped unless it is going to my obscure port number.
>


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