Re: [cobalt-users] port 444 on RaQ3/4

["Andrew Kinney" <andykinney@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23 Oct 00, at 16:10, Tien Duc Nguyen wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>         I did a portscan on my RaQs and it shows that port 444 is open for
> connection. After a little research, it appears that this port is for the
> snpp service, i.e. Simple Network Pager Protocol, used for pager messages.
> How can one disable this? What's the daemon associated with this service?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tien Duc
> 

Port 444 is used by the RaQ 3 and 4 much in the same way as 
port 81 on the RaQ 1 and 2.  It is actually an SSL port that lets you 
hook up to the admin web server securely if you have SSL enabled 
on the main site.  It is an alternative to sending SSL over port 81 as 
many proxies and firewalls can only map one type of protocol per 
port and port 81 was already used for HTTP by the RaQ 1 and 2 
and the RaQ 3 and 4 when SSL isn't enabled.  They didn't use port 
443 (normal SSL port) on the admin server because that port is 
already in use by the main web server when you enable SSL.

Sincerely,
Andrew Kinney
President, Advantagecom Networks, Inc.
http://www.advantagecom.net
509-522-3696, extension 101