Re: Using netscape to access weird ports
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 11:44:06PM -0400, dman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:57:50PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> | Recently I've had to move my webserver from port 80 to another
> | port (TimeWarner finally blocked off 80 for all personal accounts). For
> | some dumb reason I chose 79, and now Netscape gives me security errors
>
> $ grep 79 /etc/services
> finger 79/tcp
>
> Apparently netscape doesn't want to finger anybody; so it doesn't talk
> on port 79. You could try port 1024 :-).
Or more popular port 8080. Many corporate firewall blocks many port but
8080 are sometimes open for grab. ISP only bother to blocks port <1024,
I think. At any rate, port 8080 is used by some http hosts.
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