RE: Napster Access

[bparis () sorrentolactalis com]

Yes. Napster port scans to figure out the best way to facilitate
communications between your PC and a remote PC. Besides the default ports
I've seen communication take place using ports 80,20,21, and 23. Napster
will use whatever opening it can find. It's very robust...

Bill Paris
System/Network Analyst
Sorrento Lactalis Inc.
bparis () sorrentolactalis com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Lim [mailto:mwlalex () magix com sg]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 11:19 AM
> To: Dave Conroy
> Cc: firewall-wizards () nfr net
> Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Napster Access
>
>
> I am not sure if anyone know this. I installed Napster once 
> and was port
> scanned by an IP belonging to to Napster range of IPs. This was caught
> by my honeypot and I deleted the program from my hard disk 
> immediately. 
>
> Anyone care to verify this ?
>
> Cheers
> Alex
>
>
> Dave Conroy wrote:
> > Hi all;
> > I know this has been answered many times, however I failed 
> to pay attention
> > to it.
> > Alot of users in my organization are using Napster for 
> extremely long
> > periods; how would I go about blocking their access so 
> users could not
> > access their music files etc?
> >
> > Any help/comments/webpages would be appreciated!
> >
> > Dave Conroy
> > dcon () iss ca