Re: Recommandations..

Chris Uppal wrote:
IchBin wrote:

Sorry to ask this here but does anyone have a recommendations for a
network newsgroup out there.

Your problems sound very ISP specific; if you haven't already done so then it
would be worth checking whether they have some sort of support forum or user
forum.

You could even try their support line, if you're that desperate ;-) (Check
that you are allowed to run a HTTP server from your type of account first !)

FWIW I can reach port 8080 at weconsultants.servebeer.com with no obvious
problems, but there is no response of any kind (just a black hole at the IP
level) to packets going to port 80.

-- chris


Thanks Chris for your response. I would think that it is the ISP. I have talked to them and they say it is my software or hardware that is the problem not them. So I did look at the ISP policy and they do not like people running servers off the users pc's that is I guess making a dynamic IP address to look like a static one. So not sure if I can rely on their answer. Which leads me to think that they are stopping any unsolicited IP packets. I am looking at the firewall logs to verify that.

That said, their are two things that bother me. I can not traceroute from a remote location with the windoze firewall up. It takes me to one hope before my IP address. It stops at my ISP. If I take down the firewall I can traceroute to my dynamic IP address which
is mapped to weconsultants.servebeer.com If they were filtering my ports I figure think that it would not matter if the firewall was up or down? Sorry not sure what port address the traceroute get a ACK from. Figured it would be port 80. Been some time since I have looked at network stuff. I am assuming that it is a TCP and not UDP or ICMP. I am not seeing a lot of OPEN-INBOUND records.

I have added 80 and 8080 as exceptions for the firewall but it does not
matter. My next test is to load in zone alarm and take MS firewall out of the picture and see what happens. I know ports 80 and 8080 are Listening for incoming packets.

Also as of late my pc just hangs every now and again. Have not pin pointed it yet. The apps that are running are ok but can not doing anything out side of them except to bring up the task manager else hourglass. I have to log off and log back on again to clear up.

When you said you have no problem with 8080 how are you accessing that port. You can bring up the site by doing weconsultants.servebeer.com:8080? It is hard being I am on the target pc for testing.

With firewall UP: (Traceroute from University of Washington )

1 acar-ads-02-vlan190.cac.washington.edu (140.142.3.3) 0 ms 1 ms 0 ms
2 uwbr-ads-01-vl1998.cac.washington.edu (140.142.155.23) 2 ms 0 ms 1 ms
3 prs1-wes-ge-0-0-0-0.pnw-gigapop.net (209.124.176.5) 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms
4 att-pwave-1.peer.pnw-gigapop.net (209.124.179.41) 1 ms 0 ms 1 ms
5 12.127.6.102 (12.127.6.102) 63 ms 64 ms 69 ms
6 tbr2-cl11.cgcil.ip.att.net (12.122.10.61) 78 ms 66 ms 68 ms
7 tbr1-cl22.cgcil.ip.att.net (12.122.9.133) 64 ms 64 ms 64 ms
8 tbr1-cl14.n54ny.ip.att.net (12.122.10.1) 63 ms 74 ms 63 ms
9 12.122.84.69 (12.122.84.69) 67 ms 117 ms 75 ms
10 gateway2-pos1-1.str.ptd.net (12.119.12.70) 73 ms 73 ms 92 ms
11 gateway-g1-0-0.cmts.mtp.ptd.net (204.186.5.34) 80 ms 73 ms 77 ms
*
*
does not return..

With firewall down:

1 acar-ads-02-vlan190.cac.washington.edu (140.142.3.3) 0 ms 1 ms 0 ms
2 uwbr-ads-01-vl1998.cac.washington.edu (140.142.155.23) 1 ms 1 ms 0 ms
3 prs1-wes-ge-0-0-0-0.pnw-gigapop.net (209.124.176.5) 1 ms 0 ms 1 ms
4 att-pwave-1.peer.pnw-gigapop.net (209.124.179.41) 1 ms 0 ms 1 ms
5 12.127.6.102 (12.127.6.102) 68 ms 77 ms 62 ms
6 tbr2-cl11.cgcil.ip.att.net (12.122.10.61) 76 ms 76 ms 71 ms
7 tbr1-cl22.cgcil.ip.att.net (12.122.9.133) 64 ms 65 ms 91 ms
8 tbr1-cl14.n54ny.ip.att.net (12.122.10.1) 424 ms 69 ms 62 ms
9 12.122.84.69 (12.122.84.69) 168 ms 137 ms 188 ms
10 gateway2-pos1-1.str.ptd.net (12.119.12.70) 73 ms 73 ms 145 ms
11 gateway-g1-0-0.cmts.mtp.ptd.net (204.186.5.34) 73 ms 85 ms 124 ms
12 24.229.218.58.res-cmts.mtp.ptd.net (24.229.218.58) 86 ms 88 ms 79 ms


Thanks in Advance...
IchBin, Pocono Lake, Pa, USA
http://weconsultants.servebeer.com/JHackerAppManager
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