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IIS - Internet Info. Sharing, without being pinged?

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Varsh

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Ok, to the point, I am trying to test out my website before I upload it to my server however I'm on a university connection and they ping your somputer now and again to see if you're running any online services, well the thing is is there any way for them to be blocked from pinging me or is there a way to disable IIS to be used by others? This is only for testing pages I create so it doesn't matter if it's blocked completely from the outside, so errr, any ideas?
p.s. they don't allow IIS because of the online services -_-
Or if not use IIS, anything else which would work nicely which'll support PHP and MySQL?
 
Originally posted by: Varsh
Or if not use IIS, anything else which would work nicely which'll support PHP and MySQL?
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Apache will support both of these.


Also, could you try running it on an unusual port (ie other than 80). If only being used internally, you'd use http://computername:8365 (or whatever port you decide to use), as they'll probably only be checking the standard ports (80, maybe 8080)



Confused
 
They check those two ports along with ports 17-40.
I've never tried Apache before, only IIS actually though I know my friend always used Apache, I suppose that would do, but if it's still going to register on their system as an online service running, then it's pointless using it as I could just then install PHP and MySQL seperatly anyway.
Hmmm, speaking of which how do you change the port numbers? (BTW I'm using WinXP and I only need to type "localhost" to get onto my web directory).
Edit : Then again would a Firewall help at all? Say if I enabled the built in XP firewall will it stop them from pinging me or get a proper firewall? Errr, yeah.
 
A software firewall may or may not do the trick. If it blocks incomming traffic (which is what you want done in this case), it may block traffic FROM YOUR OWN MACHINE going to your own machine.

A simple and fairly inexpensive solution is to purchase & install an inexpensive BROADBAND ROUTER. The router sits between your computer and the University's Network (i.e. the physical ethernet port you're plugging into to connect to the University's network). Once connected via a broadband router, your computer is hidden behind an INTERNAL IP address assigned by the router -- an IP address the University won't be able to access (unless you open up access in the router). Should you want others to access certain ports from the outside, you can configure your router to open up specific ports.

Of course if your University doesn't scan all ports, then as others suggested, configure IIS to run on some obscure port (perhaps 54321) and that'll probably suffice.
 
Wel llike you said Zone Alarm blocked and was killing my machine so I decided to take that off, now just wondering about this changing Port number, how???
 
Actually, you can bind IIS to specific IP addresses too, so you can do the same thing and have it listen only on 127.0.0.1.
To configure IIS, go to Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> Internet Services Manager

Then RIGHT CLICK on the web-site (if you have only one, it should be the default web-site), select PROPERTIES, and find all the settings you want in there.

 
Well I changed the IP to fool but now "localhost" won't work and neither will the IP adressing, hmmm, well I reverted everything back to normal and everything works again, surely there's another way, I'm not really wanting to buy myself a Router, mainly because in the UK they're WAY too expensive and I'm not going to be here at the University Accomodation for much longer (well till the summer anyway).
 
Add the 127.0.0.1 IP address back in again. Then click the "Advanced" button. In the box that opens up, "127.0.0.1, port 80" will be listed. Add "localhost" @ port 80 as well. See if that takes care of it for you.
 
Ok, did that, so far "localhost", PHP, and MySQL is working and also after installing Sygate I managed to block IIS from accessing the WWW so hopefully everything's sorted now, I'll most probably cry if it hasn't been sorted, grrr, lol, thanks for the help ^_^, I'll tell you if I get found out or not 😛
 
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