How does Alt.Binz handle ports? What ports does Alt.Binz use?

[BigWoop]

Would you only have to allow incoming/outgoing on the port for your server? (defualt 119)

Does Alt.Binz use TCP or UDP or both?

Anything else that pertains to Alt.Binz and ports?

[msnippe]

Alt.binz is a nntp client, so logically you would have to allow nntp and nntp over ssl outgoing.

[BigWoop]

Okay, well maybe I should have said I'm no expert on ports per say.

What port numbers are those?

[Ascathon]

Check with your newsserver. Default is 119, ssl is 563.

[BigWoop]

My news server uses 119 for sure, I don't think it has ssl.

So I would only need to allow Alt.Binz access to 119 then? Is it usually TCP ir UDP that Alt.Binz uses?

[Ascathon]

Why do you want to know if it is TCP or UDP??? 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nntp <-- all in here

[BigWoop]

I'm just trying to make sure of what's going on with my traffic.

In my firewall It's reporting outgoing UDP out from Alt.Binz on port 2654,2675,2676 and some others, destined for my routers IP on port 53. Actually some other traffic from IP's I don't recognise coming from and arriving at various ports.

I just want to try work out exactly what's going on here, and if I can just block everything that Alt.Binz doesn't need, why I want to know whether it's just my servers 119 port plus whether TCP/UDP both need to be enabnled for it (Alt.Binz).

[Ascathon]

Those three ports on your machine and 53 on your router are for DNS resolving. So don't block them.
And 119 is only TCP.

Other outgoing ports might be gettings results for search engines and retrieving version info.

[BigWoop]

Okay that puts my mind at ease a bit.