Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] yhoo broke?

[Bill Fumerola <billf@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:31:07PM -0600, Nathan Neulinger wrote:
> I just went to use ethereal to trace some yahoo messenger traffic, and
> noticed that:
> 
> 	a. it didn't actually trace it (for some reason it was talking on port
> 25, dunno what's up with that)

yahoo messenger will try numerous ports if it can't get out on the ones
it defaults to. it uses several well known ports to fallback on in the
hopes it can evade lazy firewall admins.

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