ISP woes

[ciphergoth]

How can I check if my ISP has blocked all outgoing connections to port 6699 (the Napster port), and what can I do about it if they have?

Your thoughts much appreciated...

Comments

[diffrentcolours]

Don't know about how to check (presumably, just try connecting to a Napster server...). If they have blocked it, you can make use of a convenient shell account or something similar to tunnel your Napster connection over SSH - this will connect through the SSH port which shouldn't be firewalled. Of course, if you tunnel over SSH, they can't detect that the traffic is Napster traffic *g*

Easy

[kitty-goth.livejournal.com]

Nudge me, and I'll set up a little daemon that listens on 6699.

If you can't get to it, they've blocked it.

If so, then complain. I'll just bet that isn't in their terms of service.

Is it a matter of principle, or did you actually want to use a service running on that port?

If the latter, I'll just write something which redirects and bounces stuff.

Re: Easy

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

That would be cool. Just something I can telnet to, a service like daytime would be just right.

cheers!