[nycbug-talk] default blocked ports?

[Kevin Reiter]

pete wright wrote:
> 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?

If you haven't already, you need to add the following in /etc/rc.conf:

jabberd_enable="YES"
jabberd_user={user}

(I checked the /etc/defaults/rc.conf on a 5.3 box and the FreeBSD mailing 
list archive for verification on this, FYI)

HTH
-Kevin