[Lilux-help] telnet or ssh through coward firewalls

[Jay Christnach]

Pascal Steichen wrote:
> What about the netbios ports 139 ro the aother one I never remember ? They are most often open on windows networks.
> If not then maybe dns, don't think that on your server you'll have a dns server running.
>  

YES! How could I forget! I have a DNS caching only server but this is 
not really necessary, on my home network (it was a good thing when I 
still had a modem connection). I use samba too at home (only on the 
internal network card). The other computer I wish to access does not 
have a dns or windows networking, but I really doubt that the netbios 
ports will be open for traffic across a firewall, but the DNS port is 
certainly open since it is required for surfing the web. The only 
problem could be that dns is udp whereas ssh requires tcp, I hope the 
firewalls are not that restrictive.

Thanks for the hint!