Website using port 85

[Bob Chiodini]

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 16:58 -0500, Steve Brown wrote:
> After learning here on the list that my ISP, Optimum Online, blocks 
> residential customers from running web servers using port 80, I set up 
> httpd.conf and my firewall to run my site using port 85.  It works 
> fine.  Next, I registered a domain with my daughter's name: miabrown.com 
> through 1and1.com.  I set up the account so that requests for 
> miabrown.com are forwarded to my server (dynamic IP address, port 85).
> 
> Apparently, at work, they block sites that use a port number other than 
> 80.  In my brower at work, I see the IP address.  What do I need to do 
> on my server so that it shows the domain name instead of the IP address?
> 

Steve,

I'm not an HTML guru (IANAHG, hmm..., nah). It looks like the agency
that is forwarding the HTTP requests to your dynamic IP is putting the
address in the HTML.  If you run ethereal while surfing to miabrown.com
you'll see that in the first response packet that the IP address and not
the name is returned.

I would guess that using this type of redirection will always result in
your work browser displaying the IP.  BTW:  I get miabrown.com here.
Both in Linux (firefox) and windows (IE).

Which IP address is your work browser displaying, 69.113.88.148
(ool-45715894.dyn.optonline.net) or 217.160.226.79 (miabrown.com)?  I
get something completely different if I access http://69.113.88.148:85.

BTW:  The year should be 2005 for the snow pictures.  Man am I glad I
live in Florida:-)  We don't have to shovel hurricanes.

Bob...