Re: Any abuses on opening outbound port 43 tcp and udp

[John Morrison <john.morrison101 () gmail com>]

Raja,

I am not aware of any malware that might use these ports outgoing.
However, it would be good practice to only allow these ports for the
specific users and systems that have an agreed requirement.

On 12 August 2010 08:29, Raja <raja1.it.consultant () gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anybody know if there are any abuses on opening outbound port 43
> tcp/udp?
>
> More info: this port will be used as destination port by whois service to
> fetch domain registrar info.
>
> Thanks.
>
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install and use a thawte Digital Certificate on your Apache web server. Throughout, best practices for set-up are 
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