Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat

[Scott van Looy]

Today Tim did spake thusly:

> Tim:
>>> Or how in hell to get MSN messenger to work through your firewall, or
>>> any other number of things that you need to get to work with your
>>> system, but come with no more information than an instruction to see
>>> your system adminstrator (who has no information about it, anyway).
>
> Scott van Looy:
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q240063/
>>
>> Most windows sysads know both, or are at least as capable as myself of
>> googling it... :)
>
> I mentioned MSN specifically, as in the past, I had cause to resolve
> that problem.  Microsoft, at that time, did not make public what you
> needed to do, the only information was third party, and incorrect.
> Later on, I did find some information from Microsoft about it, but it
> didn't work.

Never ever had a problem with this or finding out what I needed to from 
the 'net. port80 originally, then port 443 and 80 when they decided to 
turn on SSL. That and 1863 for the initial handshake - which has always 
been fairly well documented as far as I can see, I've found references to 
this going back at least 4 years in a brief search ;)

I know that when I first set up redhat 6 as my firewall I certainly had no 
issue sorting out that, just had a bit of an issue with file transfers 
through NAT which I fixed in a short bit of googling

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