Avoid The Firewalls! Change Used Port To 80!

[teqguy]

Change your port to the most common port used, port 80 (HTTP). It will bypass firewalls, allowing people that have firewalls, but didnt disable sharing, to be downloaded from without obstruction.

[Vargas]

actually using port 80 onlys help people that want to download FROM you that normally can't due to admin restrictions.

[teqguy]

Wouldn't matter. If everyone sticks to port 80, p2p would be faster.

[Skank]

and u really think thats gonna happen?

[Switeck]

Originally posted by teqguy@14 September 2003 - 01:34
Wouldn't matter. If everyone sticks to port 80, p2p would be faster.
If everyone started using port 80, especially at universities, the sys admins would find BETTER ways to block p2p file sharing... and we'd be back to square 1 (or 0...)

Also, many packet-shaping programs run at company/university/ISP routers groups traffic by PORT and limits it to some percentage of the whole.

Now if HTTP/port 80 is given 80% of the traffic and EVERYONE's trying to use it so it's always overused, then you might be better off switching to a seldom-used port that's allowed 5% of total traffic for the ISP... simply because you wouldn't have to share that 5% since nobody else is using it.

[supersonic]

port 80 in my comp. is BLOCKED and no program can use it, even if I'm not running firewalls.

[iHadYourMomLastNight]

:blink: wat's a good port software that will make the understanding of port selection and control a bit easier for the layman?!!?!? or stoners :blink:

[nikita69]

Originally posted by iHadYourMomLastNight@KaZaa@18 September 2003 - 21:35
:blink: wat's a good port software that will make the understanding of port selection and control a bit easier for the layman?!!?!? or stoners :blink:

HERE (http://www.klboard.ath.cx/index.php?showtopic=67198). THIS IS TIPS SECTION NOT QUESTIONS/LOUNGE.

[Kemp]

port 80 in my comp. is BLOCKED and no program can use it, even if I'm not running firewalls.

So, you don't like using any web applications then, not even browsers?

[Switeck]

Originally posted by Kemp@28 September 2003 - 19:54

port 80 in my comp. is BLOCKED and no program can use it, even if I'm not running firewalls.So, you don't like using any web applications then, not even browsers?
Port 80 OUTGOING is blocked by many ISPs now due to worms and viruses.

It also means you can't host webpages (on port 80 anyhow...) from your machine.

But port 80 INCOMING is used to handle web pages, so those work ok.

[Kemp]

Doh, my mistake

[mooseman2070]

Originally posted by nikita69@18 September 2003 - 21:40

HERE (http://www.klboard.ath.cx/index.php?showtopic=67198). THIS IS TIPS SECTION NOT QUESTIONS/LOUNGE.
says i dont have permission to see it

[Sabec]

Port 80 is a bad idea

just set it to any port > 2000 and you should be fine, most windows applications all use ports under that.

I usually pick ports that are easy to remember like 2003 2004 6969 7777 etc. havn't had those taken yet ;)

[asmithz]

Port 80 is a bad port, more likly to get cuaght.

[Sabec]

If you're really worried about getting caught you need a good firewall on your comp that catches port scans and messes with them, otherwise all your isp or sysadmin has to do is portscan your comp to see which ones are open.

[MUSLEMAN]

don't use port 80 is a bad idea like every body else says

[wenze1]

Change your port to the most common port used, port 80 (HTTP). http://smilies.networkessence.net/s/ups/DeNiro/up_yours.gif http://smilies.jeeptalk.org/contrib/geno/asshole2.gif http://instagiber.net/smiliesdotcom/contrib/geno/fuckyou.gif

Why in the Would you wanna use port 80 retard!!!! Then you may as well just call the Riaa and confess cause youll get caught 80 times fasτer :phone: §§

[Switeck]

Originally posted by wenze1@27 December 2003 - 04:51

Change your port to the most common port used, port 80 (HTTP). Why in the Would you wanna use port 80 retard!!!! Then you may as well just call the Riaa and confess cause youll get caught 80 times fasτerThis is a misconception -- how fast you DOWNLOAD and UPLOAD from individual sources, whether you are firewalled, and how likely you are to be caught by RIAA are often completely unrelated to each other.

A NATed 10 Mbps business line is fast indeed, but will ALWAYS show up as firewalled to Kazaa/Kazaa Lite unless you can port-forward the 1 ip port that KL++ is set to use. Whether that gets 'found' by RIAA depends alot on whether you're blocking 'hostile' ips (RIAA/MPAA/BSA/spammers/hackers/viruses/etc) and blocking listing of all your files. It also depends on whether RIAA is scanning that branch of the fasttrack network while you're on KL++.

[wenze1]

Everytime i unblock port 80 my intrusion alert goes off constantly so i don't use it. :frusty:

[Switeck]

Originally posted by wenze1@28 December 2003 - 21:59
Everytime i unblock port 80 my intrusion alert goes off constantly so i don't use it. :frusty:
Yep, LOTS of trojans and viruses are trying to invade computers accross the internet via port 80.

Just about any 'popular' ip port has this problem.
If it's an 'open door', they want IN!