Port NNNN not secure (revisited)

After some helpful email from Frank Smith off-list I have decided to trya different approach to

slve my problem:

Here is an excerpt from my tape-server /etc/services file.

amanda          20080/udp  #Dump server control
amandaidx       20082/tcp  #Amanda indexing
amidxtape       20083/tcp  #Amanda tape indexing


Note that I am not using the standard ports for amanda et al.

A tcpdump from the client end of the communication between host'familyserv' and host 'famrad' went as follows:


<snip>

14:57:55.661773 IP familyserv.familyradio.org.ssh >famrad.familyradio.org.44233: P 1048606257:1048606385(128) ack4160186819 win 33304 <nop,nop,timestamp 449488411 123825292>14:57:55.665181 IP famrad.familyradio.org.44233 >familyserv.familyradio.org.ssh: . ack 128 win 33240 <nop,nop,timestamp123825301 449488402>14:58:06.382636 IP famrad.familyradio.org.34932 >familyserv.familyradio.org.amanda: UDP, length: 11914:58:06.423680 IP familyserv.familyradio.org.amanda >famrad.familyradio.org.34932: UDP, length: 5014:58:06.424676 IP familyserv.familyradio.org.amanda >famrad.familyradio.org.34932: UDP, length: 10914:58:06.428009 IP famrad.familyradio.org.34932 >familyserv.familyradio.org.amanda: UDP, length: 50

Since both ends are supposedy configured for tcpportrange=512.1023 andudpportrange=50000,50100

why do I have ports like 34932 tring to be used in the master-slavecommuinications? That port is

not open on my firewall.

I will appreciate any clues you may give me on this problem. (I don'thave any.)



Mike Allen