[BC] Ports

[JYRussell@academicplanet.com]

Right on.  although I never had a chance to fiddle with Telnet, I did know
there were a few ports that are standard for mail, and http, and whatnot.
Those are spelled out in the router when you buy it, and in a couple of
places on the web and the post I got a bit ago, so those got left alone.

   But there IS also a spot in the router to not respond to unsolicited
pings.   I made sure that option was on, (which it was by default) and set
the skimmer audio server over to some port like (example) 53201, or some
such number, that did not appear on any of the weird hits I was seeing on
the incoming log.  Set it on the app, set it on the router under virtual
servers or port fwding (one or the other, don't remember which).  Checked
the widnows firewall as well.

   It ran fine; you could http:// that port, and come right up on the server
and input your stuff and get audio.  Wav worked, mp3 spooled faster and
worked as well.

   From what I understand, corporate didn't like that, they wanted to use
port 80, although the router is showing the thing on both 80 and 123... and
apparently they pull all our audio to some other server (probably they have
a bigger fatter pipe so all the muckity mucks can hit it at the same time
rather than trying to use our cable connection)

   Problem is they didn't bother to give us access to that server, so I
still have a port open to the app locally, as well...


Jason
> Telnet port 80, you get web server. Telnet port 25, you get an SMTP
server,
 etc.
 Imagine your browser does it's standard telnet port 80 GET, as all browsers
do,
 but your web server is running on port 3216.
 What happens ?
 Nothing.<