Heyya Guys and Gals,

A mate and I are running a LAN in our unit, and we were trying to get MSN Messenger to work through our uni connection, but it wouldnt connect because there is a firewall.

So I downloaded Advanced Port Scan (or something like that) and scanned the proxy server, and got Messenger working. And me being me, I thought I'd run a port scan on our network targeting his machine, and I saw he had 4 ports open, port 135 (loc-src), port 139 (netbios-ssn) and 445 (microsoft-ds), so I thought that's fair enough for them to be open I spose. But there was a last one, port 1025 (blackjack). I don't know what it was, so i searched in google and all I got were Online-Casinos.

I was wondering if:
- any should be open?
- if blackjack should be open?
- if it's not, how do i close it?
and last but not least,
- what does the port do (as in what programs would use it etc.)

I anyone else has something to add, by all means add to it.

Thanks Guys,