I need to run an application that uses IRC as it's backend server. IRCD usually runs on port 6667/tcp. Some firewalls are configured to block outgoing traffic to all ports other than common ones like 80 etc. Would I be able to make the app more accessible by running the IRCD on port 80 (or using port forwarding from External_IP:80 to Internal_IP:6667 in my firewall)? What would be the down side? Would certain firewalls block the app just because it's sending non http traffic to port 80? Is this a reasonable solution? Are there other better ones?
Thanks Chaim
