Re: Using netscape to access weird ports
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
> saying that access to this port has been disabled for security reasons.
> There gotta be a way to disable that security check in Netscape.ad, I just
> can't seem to find the option. Does anyone know which option in which file
> has to be removed/modified to allow netscape access to port 79?
> Please cc me, I am not subscribed.
> Thanks,
> Andrei
along with port 79, netscape also blocks out port 87. Basically so that
no one can use netscape to do nasty things to finger or the ttylink <?>
If you're manually specifying the port, anything above 1024 will be
free.
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Adam McDaniel
Infrastructure Technology Consultant
M-Tech Mercury Information Technology, Inc.
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