Normal open ports on windows machines

From: Alan Ramsbottom (ACRat_private)
Date: Wed Oct 27 1999 - 13:06:32 PDT

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    There's been an update to ipFilters.xls (Excel spreadsheet) on the MS ftp
    site. It contains a fairly useful list of ports used by Windows NT, MS and a
    couple of other folk's applications. Look in their Internet Services Network
    directory:
    
      ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/services/isn/ossbss/security/
    
    A friendly version of the same would make a welcome addition to the MS
    security site..
    
    ..as would things like the (alleged) premier support customers only Knowlege
    Base article Q154596: Limiting the RPC ports used by DMZ NT Systems through
    a firewall. Holding back such obviously useful security articles does seem
    to undermine MS claims of concern for their customer's security. 
    
    I'm not rich enough to know if the solution is documented in the above
    article, so has anyone suceeded in forcing NT RPC services to use a fixed
    range of ports via the relevant RPC registry settings? I tried that once on
    an IIS box, in an attempt to ensure any open RPC ports were guaranteed to
    fall within a filtered range. Iirc, it partly worked but some other bad
    things happened.
    
    -Alan-
    



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