[Coco] Resurrecting a dead CoCo 3

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Jan 9 18:54:20 EST 2009


On Friday 09 January 2009, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
>On 9 Jan 2009 at 16:33, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Depending on your present box, you could do like I have and set up my
>> own web server on port 85, blocking vz's port 80 blockage they claim
>> they aren't doing.  Sure they don't.  Yup, denial ain't a river in
>> Egypt.  You can see what tries to keep this old fart out of the bars
>> at
>>
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>They can't block port 80 on TCP/IP. That is the main HTTP port for all web
>browsers. If they blocked that most web pages would not load. Also it would
>be nice to have a static IP address or a service that does an DNS remaps
>to your continual  changing IP address.

They block access requests to port 80 coming my way only.  Everything else 
works a treat.  So I have a NAT rule in my router that forwards port 85 to 
port 80 at this boxes address.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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