begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:52:23PM -0800: > > On Thu, February 21, 2008 1:39 pm, SJS wrote: [snip] > > What *can* you hit with, say, a browser? > > Interesting. The internet. file://...
Well, the problem is that you /can't/ hit the Internet, or selected portions. I'm suspecting "Da Webz", meaning "port 80 only". > However when I start a small browser on the same machine like wikit.kit > on, say, port 1111, I can;t hit it through > > my.real.ip.addr:1111 > or > 127.0.0.1:1111 > > ... and I'm not used to that. Everywhere else, it just works. Hm. Try localhost as well, as 127.0.0.1 doesn't always equal localhost. Also, can you telnet to port 1111 on your machine? Type "GET /" and bang on the return key and see what you see. > > And is your browser configured to use a proxy? > > Hey, it's me, Lan. And IE. HTHWIK? > Troll through the magic settings dialogs looking for "proxy" or "How You Connect To The Internet" or somesuch. As you can't even hit your local machine, I'm thinking that you're using a proxy, and it's not a transparent one even. -- Security means saying "no" to the users, and also Explaining why "no" was the appropriate answer. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
