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| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 142636 | 2003-05-09 04:58:00 | I cannot establish a connecdtion to MSN Messenger through my Tertiary institution. It seems they have shut down certain ports to prevent us from chatting. Does anyone know a way around this? | jerry_23 (3745) | ||
| 142637 | 2003-05-09 05:02:00 | Try a Proxy server on an Un-Blocked PC? Just a lil side-note - Does anybody know of some software to Scan for the address of a Proxy on a LAN? |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 142638 | 2003-05-09 05:05:00 | Actually, come to think of it, you may be able to use ANY proxy server... find an ISP (Any one will do) that runs a proxy, and have a look on their website to see if they have posted the details of it and how to connect to it! MSN works with HTTP and SOCKS proxies :-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 142639 | 2003-05-09 05:08:00 | As a I know from experience (e.g. my mums work etc...) there is not much you can do to get around this, give Chilling_Silently idea a shot, but I do not think you can bypass it. Good luck. |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 142640 | 2003-05-09 05:10:00 | i've done almost everything to do with http, socks 4 & 5 and proxy settings, but it seems that the institute have blocked the port numbers that MSN messenger operate on! | jerry_23 (3745) | ||
| 142641 | 2003-05-09 05:15:00 | i have read that it may be possible for MSN messenger to piggyback on the hotmail port settings, has anyone got any thoughts on this? | jerry_23 (3745) | ||
| 142642 | 2003-05-09 05:16:00 | From personal Experience, MSN Messenger does not like using an HTTP Proxy Server, however it does handle SOCKS 5 proxy servers ok providing it has authentication details... - give that a try. The problem with using a public proxy is that most are either HTTP or HTTP and FTP only... However, aside from this, I would say that MSN Messenger would be blocked for legitimate reasons and therefore should stay blocked... CyberChuck |
cyberchuck (173) | ||
| 142643 | 2003-05-09 05:16:00 | Even across the LAN? You could see about a Proxy server that uses a different port number? |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 142644 | 2003-05-09 05:33:00 | well i'll plugging away at it, but i think i might be shot. cheers all! |
jerry_23 (3745) | ||
| 142645 | 2003-05-09 05:52:00 | Have you ever thought that they might be blocking it for a reason ;) | -=JM=- (16) | ||
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