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. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ +
