Re: Rsync/IPTables Help

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:29:16PM -0500, John Bell wrote:
> I'm having trouble with RSync.  I am 99.99% sure my problem is the
> firewall.  What ports do I need to open up to allow rsync to operate?  I
> know I need to open up 873, but are there any others?

You'd only need to open that up if you wanted to run rsync as a
daemon (like for running an anonymous rsync service).

What exactly are you trying to do?

> Is it like ftp and does it use one for data and one for control?

No, it's straight TCP on a single channel.

Steve
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