[nycbug-talk] default blocked ports?

[pete wright]

On 5/3/05, Matthew Terenzio <matt at jobsforge.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi ,
> Google can't read my mind today so I must ask the community's help.
> 
> Do I need to explicitly allow connections in a default installation of
> FreeBSD 5.3? Like port 5222 for XMPP, for instance.
> 
ipfw or pf should not be installed by default on FreeBSD.  Check
/etc/defaults/rc.conf to see what default settings are enabled for
you.  These can be overrided in /etc/rc.conf.

> I'm trying to launch a jabberd server and getting this alert:
> 
> io_select unable to listen on 5222 [(null)]: jabberd already running or
> invalid interface?
> 
> Jabberd isn't running anywhere else which leads me to believe I
> connections might disabled by default.

does netstat show anything running on those ports?

-p


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