February 16, 201313 yr Just curious what everyone uses for port numbers. I can understand if you don't want to share what ports you use. Just looking for suggestions. Seeing as the defaults are as such for following: 8080 = unmenu and sabnzbd 88 = what I have used before for sabnzbd because 8080 is taken by unmenu 9090 = sabnzbd ssl 8081 = sickbeard 5000 = couchpotato v1 5050 = couchpotato v2 8003 = utorrent 8181 = headphones 89 = unraid-web 4040 = subsonic 4141 = subsonic I was thinking of using 8081, 8082, 8083, etc... But something tells me there is a better idea. Or am I just over thinking it? Thanks EDIT: Completely forgot to mention I do have some of those programs open to the world. All of them aren't on the default ports and I wouldn't want to keep them there. I'm redoing my install and will be opening them up again. Currently they are accessed by username and passwords (16 digit alpha numeric) and most of them over ssl. I know this is a loaded question but is there anything else I can do within reason to protect the apps? I am not giving up the ability to access them threw my phone as that is one of the reasons I run most of those apps. All the apps use a ip combined with port and user/pass.
February 16, 201313 yr Internally I use ports starting at 5001 for my apps. I realize there are already apps and services that use those ports by default but none of them will ever be on my home network so I'm not really too concerned. I use different external ports that forward to these internal ports but I won't list those. I saw an interesting video on YouTube about using nginx as a proxy for those apps so you can give them all standard URLs and have only one open port. i.e. www.yourdomain.com/sabnzbd, www.yourdomain.com/sickbeard, etc. That video also also pointed out the freedns.afraid.org dynamic dns service too me. No sure how I hadn't heard of it before. It lets you use your own domain at no cost which is pretty awesome. Finally have a use for that domain I've been paying for and doing nothing with. I realize opening up the server to the internet can be really risky but I'm about to switch from using unraid for my plugins to running all those apps in jails on a PC-BSD VM. This should make it much safer to open up to the outside world. Speaking of *nix, today I finished migrating my HTPC to XBMCbuntu from Windows. My house is now finally completely Windows free!
February 16, 201313 yr My house is now finally completely Windows free! Welcome to the club! I use Ubuntu for desktops and OpenELEC for media servers. I wish I could claim to be Microsoft-free, but we do have an Xbox.
February 16, 201313 yr My house is now finally completely Windows free! Welcome to the club! I use Ubuntu for desktops and OpenELEC for media servers. I wish I could claim to be Microsoft-free, but we do have an Xbox. I have an Xbox 360 as well but it hasn't been turned on in years. It isn't even plugged in but it's still sitting in the media center cabinet. I've got 3 MacBooks and an old HP laptop from work running PC-BSD that I use for testing. Plus an iPad and two iPhones. My main media player is my HTPC, running XBMCbuntu as I just mentioned. All the others are Apple TVs running Plex. (Can you tell I like Apple? ) About to put PC-BSD in a VM on my server to run all my apps. So most of my devices are actually running BSD variants as opposed to Linux. Only Linux devices will be XBMCbuntu in my HTPC and the unraid VM.
February 16, 201313 yr Just curious what everyone uses for port numbers. I can understand if you don't want to share what ports you use. Just looking for suggestions. Seeing as the defaults are as such for following: 8080 = unmenu and sabnzbd 88 = what I have used before for sabnzbd because 8080 is taken by unmenu 9090 = sabnzbd ssl 8081 = sickbeard 5000 = couchpotato v1 5050 = couchpotato v2 8003 = utorrent 8181 = headphones 89 = unraid-web 4040 = subsonic 4141 = subsonic I was thinking of using 8081, 8082, 8083, etc... But something tells me there is a better idea. Or am I just over thinking it? Thanks EDIT: Completely forgot to mention I do have some of those programs open to the world. All of them aren't on the default ports and I wouldn't want to keep them there. I'm redoing my install and will be opening them up again. Currently they are accessed by username and passwords (16 digit alpha numeric) and most of them over ssl. I know this is a loaded question but is there anything else I can do within reason to protect the apps? I am not giving up the ability to access them threw my phone as that is one of the reasons I run most of those apps. All the apps use a ip combined with port and user/pass. Opening up those tools to the internet is not a very good idea... It will definately put you at risk.. Make sure you backup your important stuff out of the array.
February 16, 201313 yr Just curious what everyone uses for port numbers. I can understand if you don't want to share what ports you use. Just looking for suggestions. There is a list of default and recommended ports for the various services - including SAB, CP, and SB - published in the wiki here Kevin
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