Ubuntu Security :: What Ports Does Firefox Use To Connect To The Internet
Apr 24, 2010What ports does Firefox use to connect to the Internet?
View 9 RepliesWhat ports does Firefox use to connect to the Internet?
View 9 RepliesI followed instructions for installing vidalia and polipo and everything seems to be working ok, but I cannot connect to tor from firefox using torbutton. I didn't edit configurations other than downloaded those for polipo, as described in the link above.I read that somebody got it working with foxyproxy better than torbutton, but torbutton is customised specifically to enhance tor, so I'd prefer to use it unless there issomething better.torbutton test fails with: Quote:Tor proxy test: Local HTTP Proxy is unreachable. Is Polipo running properly?Message log from tor:
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Apr 11 00:39:51.187 [Notice] Tor v0.2.1.30. This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on Linux i686)
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I just cant get firefox to connect to the net, the computer receives the wireless signal etc but cant get on the net.
Overall I am getting to hate Linux etc, wiped off a perfectly running Widows 7 to get this mess. Can I uninstalll Unbuntu and get my Windows 7 back?
These files seem to contain browsing history:
~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.default/cookies.sqlite ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.default/formhistory.sqlite ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.default/downloads.sqlite ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.default/places.sqlite ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.default/places.sqlite-journal
~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.default/Cache/
Therefore I have cleared these files using an erasing program. I am wondering if there are other locations where such log files are stored for Internet browsing. I have looked in the /var/log directory and cannot see anything - for example doing a grep on http:// after browsing in Firefox does not reveal anything obvious.
I have a freshly installed dual boot Win 7 and F15. Windows 7 gets on the internet no problem, so does this RHEL/FF machine, iphone too, but F15/Firefox no joy. it's showing me connected to my network just fine. I'm pretty sure it worked at some point because I did my software updates and I have a saved bookmark, though I don't remember exactly.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI have a dual boot Linux system with Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 and Slackware 12.1. I have a USB modem Huawei 1261 that I am using with Ubuntu with the usb_modeswitch package. I would like to get that working with Slackware 12.1. The usb_modeswitch seems to be working fine and also the "wvdial cdma" seems to working but Firefox can't connect to the internet.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have just installed OpenSuse in a brand new desktop. I have got no problem at the installation process. Somehow, I still could not get my firefox to browse internet.I set the network configuration by applying the IP Address, Subnetmask, Standard Gateway etc. I can ping, both internal network and external network. So, I assume, there is no problem exist in relay and accept data.Still, I can not browse using firefox.I could, indeed, open the website google.com, by typing http://74.125.43.147, but can not proceed if I typed
if config =
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:1D:C438
inet addr:192.168.1.57 Bcast:192.168.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
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I run Fedora 14. I use Firefox. Because I live in China, I have a VPN service from [URL] Their software has configured Firefox to use a proxy. I do not start Astrill on boot. If I start Firefox first, I cannot connect to the internet. how to tell Firefox not to use a proxy? Today, Astrill was down or unavailable or whatever, and I could not reach the internet. I have looked in Edit-Preferences but I cannot see a tab 'configure proxy'
View 5 Replies View RelatedCannot connect to internet via Firefox or Midori on my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop with a Netgear wireless card. However, I can update via yum, I can ping google from the CLI, I can ssh to my desktop, I can point a browser to find my router which /etc/resolv.conf points to, but can't get a browser to resolve hostname. I'm posting from a different machine (desktop), here is my /etc/resolv.conf:
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I have a Lenovo S10e netbook running a pretty clean version of 32bit opensuse 11.4, with very few standard patches since I installed it all those moons ago. The problem is that firefox cannot connect to the internet, the odd bit is that skype has no such problems. Are there any network related functions that that typically go screwy that might cause such a problem? The netbook really hasn't been used much for tinkering to have 'accumulated' a problem, but I'm about to give it to the extremely non-technical parents in law and cannot have it misbehaving, especially not as they are in a different country.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI know this is not a win-doze forum but i always ask my questions here so here goes.I am having what appears to be a DNS problem on a friends laptop. He is running windows XP. I CAN connect to networks and even ping websites but i CANNOT browse in Internet Explorer or FIrefox.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have installed linux 10.10 and i want to connect internet through USB Bsnl EVDO modemprocedure/commands to connect to internet
View 5 Replies View RelatedAfter reading a lot about networking and security I decided to check the security of my own ubuntu box. So I went installing Nmap and discovered that port 139 was "open". Since I 'd read how to use ufw I created a deny rule for port 139. After a second scan with Nmap it still said that port 139 was open as shown below.
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I'm locking down my laptop. I know I can use a firewall to ensure nothing gets through that I didn't catch, and I certainly plan on using one, but in the meantime, I want to know what exactly is running on my system.
nmap localhost returns:
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james@james-linux:~$ nmap localhost
Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-07-26 23:33 CDT
Warning: Hostname localhost resolves to 2 IPs. Using 127.0.0.1.
Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1):
Not shown: 994 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
25/tcp open smtp
111/tcp open rpcbind
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
445/tcp open microsoft-ds
631/tcp open ipp
2049/tcp open nfs
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.18 seconds
However, I know that localhost goes back to the loopback interface, 127.0.0.1. So, to see what was really open, I ran nmap 192.168.0.108, which is my laptop's IP at the moment.
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james@james-linux:~$ nmap 192.168.0.108
Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-07-26 23:33 CDT
Interesting ports on 192.168.0.108:
Not shown: 996 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
111/tcp open rpcbind
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
445/tcp open microsoft-ds
2049/tcp open nfs
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.14 seconds
Now if I understand correctly, I can attribute 139 and 445 to my Samba share. That I'm okay with. What I don't know is 111 and 2049. Does anyone know what these ports are, what's running on them, and how I could turn them off, supposing that they are a security risk?
I'm getting heat from the head networking office that ports 21, 110, and 143 are open. I can telnet to those ports from a remote machine (not localhost) and get a prompt. There does not seem to be anything listening on those ports according to netstat. I've tried using iptables to discard all traffic to a from those ports but I can still telnet to them. This is a lucid desktop machine.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI installed Ubuntu 9.10 recently. I heard that there will be no open ports in the system unless I specifically open one. How do I scan to find a open port in my system.
View 9 Replies View Relatedwhen i enable my ufw it completely shuts me out and closed my internet connection. i installed firewall configuraiton interface and through it defined rules to accept incoming internet connections on port 80, i can see the rules are there but when i enable my firewall it just shuts me out completely again.
when i do(with my firewall enabled):
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$ sudo ufw status
it gives me:
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Status: active
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I also messed around with fwbuilder and iptables but since then deleted fwbuilder(besides i just compiled firewall policy and never actually installed it because of errors while trying to install it. Iptables I cleared with:
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$ sudo iptables -F
I know how to forward ports in my router. Now I need to open a port to help with testing a project and no matter what I've tried, every port under 1055 shows up as stealthed (with 1-71 closed) according to Shields Up! I'm happy to run it at a port > 1024, but whatever I try also shows up stealthed. I even tried (briefly) turning on DMZ and still the same thing. My ISP swears that they only block port 80, 21 and 25, none of which I'm trying to use. UFW status reports inactive and I'm not using firestarter. I'm not running any other server (apache, light speed etc). If it's not my router and it's not my ISP, and there's no other server apps running, then that kind of leaves Ubuntu as far as I can see,
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View 5 Replies View RelatedWhat is happening when I log in to my Ubuntu server machine via ssh and putty. trying to understand everything, primarily securing my server.
I have specified the ssh server to listen on port 5525, and can login without a problem.
When I look at the logs though it says I connected from xxx.xx.xx.xx on port 53602.
What is happening here and why is the logged connection a different port to the one specified in the config file?
How do I change the ports that something like xchat uses to make it use the same port as firefox? I am currently somewhere that has all non browser ports blocked.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have open ports on my computer for vsftpd, pptpd, and I need help to filter this ports because they aper as open ports on internet, and this is pretty risky
View 3 Replies View RelatedWe do NOT support samba on our Unbuntu servers but still zillions of windows machines are constantly trying to connect on the SMB ports. I've added a rule that drops access to destination ports 137-138 and that seems to work. But it creates many many log entries documenting that the packet has been dropped. I've been researching and cannot come up with a way to suppress logging for these drops.
View 4 Replies View Relatedlooking at my router logs i've noticed for the past while a range of source ports from 60000 to about 65000 from my source external ip to destination external ip always on port 80. I have 3 boxes on this network and this only seems to happen when i connect the one laptop. I even reinstalled the distro downloaded from trusted source but the router is still logging this.. netstat -ntulp shows nothing operating in this range. chkrootkit shows nothing.. Was thinking maybe someone was spoofing the external address but it's been happening on network startup for a month now
View 4 Replies View RelatedI enabled ufw yesterday, and am finding log entries like:
Jun 30 13:07:51 xxxx kernel: [15702368.296557] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=00:22:19:5e:8f:23:00:0c:db:fc:8b:00:08:00 SRC=xx.xx.xx.xx DST=xx.xx.xx.xx LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=55 ID=47632 PROTO=TCP SPT=58875 DPT=80 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 ACK FIN URGP=0
What is puzzling is I did the command: ufw allow 80.
I am trying to configure Bittorando and iptables using Firestarter. I have got it working but am concerned about security holes.
Let me explain.
AIUI, the Bittornado program contacts the "tracker" on various ports which (from the previously blocked connections in Firestarter) ranged from 4664 to 65532. Therefore, currently I have set this range to be open to allow downloads of the torrent.
However, this seems, IMHO, to devalue to point of having a restrictive exit policy for Firestarter since now virtually all ports are open. I can see nothing on the Bittornado client to restrict the outgoing ports although the "listening" (incoming) ports can be restricted.
I would prefer to have my system locked-down so that the minimal number of ports are open to initiate external connections so is there any way to achieve this with Bittornado?
While (attempting) to set up ssh on a couple of machines (not this one) I've noticed that I keep getting some strange unknown ports showing as open on my PC when I do a port scan on its address. They are only opened transiently, they are all high numbers eg 33348, 41147, 50370 etc. I have opened no ports on this machine at any time and ufw is set to deny all incoming.
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