From: Joe Regular <kristapestry@...>
Date: 2006-10-04T07:32:43+09:00
Subject: Re: NET::HTTP behind a firewall?

Jeremy Tregunna wrote:
>>> requests?
>>
> 
> Outgoing connections are almost always made on high ports. It doesn't
> matter what you're using to connect out, the fact that you're making
> a client request to some remote server on some port, will cause your
> client ip:port to be <ip you're going out over>:<some high port,
> probably over 10000>.
> 
> So be sure you open up say 10000 - 65535 outgoing tcp
> 
> If this still doesn't work, there's probably some sort of transparent
> firewall between your router and your destination blocking this.


Jeremy, thanks for the help. I knew the outgoing connections were made 
on higher ports but I was not sure which range of ports they would be 
made on and I wanted to keep my config as tight as possible. I also 
wanted to know if there was a way to allow a specific process (such as 
the one running ruby) to access all outgoing ports.

Francis, thanks for your support.

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