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RE: automatic updates and firewall

 
 
Richard Uys
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      07-03-2006
You must allow TCP traffic to travel inbound and outbound on port 80 and 443
and UDP traffic to travel inbound and outbound on port 53

TCP Port 80 = HTTP
TCP Port 80 = HTTPS
UDP Port 53 = DNS

"Marcin Barczynski" wrote:

> Hello
>
> I don't want to allow svchost to connect all hosts on all ports.
> How to configure firewall to allow automatic updates, but nothing more
> than really needed (I mean there are no unnecessary ports open and no
> unnecessary applications allowed).
>
> Thank you in anticipation.
>
> --
> Best regards
> M.B.
>

 
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