Network troubleshooting, any experts?

jludwig wralphie at comcast.net
Thu Apr 29 01:06:01 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 20:27, Elam Daly wrote:
> Jeff Vian wrote:
> 
> > \My thoughts are that they probably know this is a server, and as such 
> > may have blocked TCP from that particular host IP address.
> >
> >
> > It appears UDP and ICMP are getting through.
> >
> >>
> >
> >
> They do know it's a web server, as they host our website.  If TCP is 
> being blocked though, how is it possible that can people visit the
> website?  I realize that http connections come in through port 80, but 
> the responses from the webserver don't.  They leave from the
> webserver through any port that apache deems neccessary, correct? 
> 
> Elam Daly
> Whiteware Inc.
Yes the destination port indicates the service being requested.-- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>





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