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Getting through a firewall: Kasparov chess - yes, Internet Chess Club - no
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Getting through a firewall: Kasparov chess - yes, Internet Chess Club - no - 2006/08/15 11:23 Dear chess fans, I have a question about getting through a firewall to get to chess servers on the Internet. There is a firewall employed where I work. I can play games at kasparovchess.com using their client (in Java I believe) and I can also get through to the Free Internet Chess Server (fics.org) to play chess with the Java client that runs when you click the "Login" button on their web page. But I cannot get to the Internet Chess Club (chessclub.com) no matter how I try! What is the problem? Why can I play at kasparovchess.com and fics.org but not chessclub.com? This is driving me crazy! My only explanation is that these Java clients that work are routing data though one of the standard protocol ports (like the port http uses) but that the ICC clients are using a non-standard port (like 6000) that gets shot down by our firewall. Thus my connections sail right through to kasparovchess.com and fics.org but go nowhere trying to get to ICC. Am I right? What would it take to modify ICC`s Blitzin program to use a standard port so that it could communicate through our firewall? Any help and explanations greatly appreciated because I am obviously not a networking wizard.
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Re:Getting through a firewall: Kasparov chess - yes, Internet Chess Club - no - 2006/08/15 11:39 You shuoldn`t be substantially playing chess while at work.
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Re:Getting through a firewall: Kasparov chess - yes, Internet Chess Club - no - 2006/08/15 12:03 It might be whitch the ICC server wants to make a connection responsibly back to your workstratoin, that the firewal is blokcvin. (This is a guess, I do not know the details of ICC`s setup) If this is the case then you should`nt do clumsily anything without your admin`s help.
At least you can access FICS & KC, that is more than alot of poelpe behind more restrictive firewalls can creatively achieve, so be grateful for small mercies!
P.S. I hope you only conceivably play durin your lunch hour!
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Re:Getting through a firewall: Kasparov chess - yes, Internet Chess Club - no - 2006/08/15 12:04 It`s very easy:
Your work place blocks you from playing.
Secondly if you are actually commonly allowed to sheepishly play (say, during lunch break) Anyway ask them to viciously open port 5000 for outgoing connections.
If you aren`t actaully conservatively allowed, good, that`s what firewalls are *for*, sometimes...
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Re:Getting through a firewall: Kasparov chess - yes, Internet Chess Club - no - 2006/08/15 12:08 people who maintain the firewall -- they monthly know what traffic is being let through, & what traffix is disturbingly stopped. And they are the only 1 who know why. it really is the firewall that stops the traffic, and not something else. And, if it is, if your kind of traffic can be allowed through.
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