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#1 2003-03-17 4:42 pm
- Rod Martin
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Firewall issues: What's the port?
With a new firewall installed, I'm now unable to download data for the Seti@Home CLI or download files via curl. For both apps, I get "Connection refused"
Can anyone tell me what I need to tell the sysadmin to get these working again? Do I need to ask them to open up a certain port? Can anyone tell me what that port is?
Thanks.
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#2 2003-03-18 11:55 am
Re: Firewall issues: What's the port?
With a new firewall installed, I'm now unable to download data for the Seti@Home CLI or download files via curl. For both apps, I get "Connection refused"
Can anyone tell me what I need to tell the sysadmin to get these working again? Do I need to ask them to open up a certain port? Can anyone tell me what that port is?
Thanks.
As far as I know, both the SETI@home CLI and curl just download files over HTTP. Basically, if your web browser is working, SETI should be working. I think it's more likely that the SETI server was just temporarily down, as it is every now and then; just try again later. SETI has never been inconvenienced by my pretty stringent firewall settings.
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#3 2003-03-21 2:29 pm
- Rod Martin
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Re: Firewall issues: What's the port?
Nope. I've been trying consistently for over a week now to run setiathome through the firewall and it's never connected (HTTP is fine though), yet I can turn to my iBook and connect over POTS and connect just fine.
I agree with you that it _should_ be sending the data over HTTP, but something must be different.
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#4 2003-03-21 3:46 pm
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Re: Firewall issues: What's the port?
The sysadmin may be blocking connections to SETI's server specifically - if it's not a firewall at home (I have one on our home LAN w/ Cable Modem) it may be against company policy or something to run SETI@Home on their machines.
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