need to find my schools firewall address

[bigdaddykane]

im using xp pro and need to find out what the firewall is so i can change ports because our school limited the bandwith for port 1080. thanks

 

[Poontos]

Please ask your network/firewall administrator.

 

[nomad147]

Do a "tracert <ip here>" to anywhere on the internet and it should be one if the first few listed.

Cheers

 

[Nutz]

Just hit any IP logging site and look up that way. Some forums do this too.

 

[bigdaddykane]

thanks people

 

[bigdaddykane]

tired the tracert and that didn't work asked the people at resnet and that also didn't work i think the bastard was lieing cause he said he didn't know how and the ip that the forums list is my ip address. can you go into more detail on how to run a tracert. i'm not sure if i did it correctly. thanks

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< tired the tracert and that didn't work asked the people at resnet and that also didn't work i think the bastard was lieing cause he said he didn't know how and the ip that the forums list is my ip address. can you go into more detail on how to run a tracert. i'm not sure if i did it correctly. thanks >>



At the command prompt: "tracert www.yahoo.com"

Then one of the last ip's that your school owns should be a firewall. The last should be the router on your end. Just remember that circumventing security measures like a firewall a felony and you could get kicked out of school or worse for committing such crimes.

 

[KBTibbs]

from a pc behind the school's firewall Go Here and click "Test My Shields". The only problem is, if your school is very weird and actually have a qualified non-brain damaged netadmin with a firewall that has good logging, they might find out about this and it's a firewall security site and they may think you'r just trying to find an exploit.

 

[Tallgeese]

<< they may think you'r just trying to find an exploit. >>

Earth to Tibbs...Earth calling KBTibbs...

Circumventing policy IS an exploit.

 

[Nutz]

<< Just remember that circumventing security measures like a firewall a felony and you could get kicked out of school or worse for committing such crimes. >>



That's not entirely accurate. Circumventing/bypassing your network's security is perfectly legal even though it probably breaks the school's policies (and may get you booted). For example, on the network I'm currently on using a personal proxy server you set up at home instead of useing theirs is legal, just against their rules. Now cracking/hacking the network is something entirely different and is protected by computer intrusion laws.

 

[n0cmonkey]

<<

<< Just remember that circumventing security measures like a firewall a felony and you could get kicked out of school or worse for committing such crimes. >>

That's not entirely accurate. Circumventing/bypassing your network's security is perfectly legal even though it probably breaks the school's policies (and may get you booted). For example, on the network I'm currently on using a personal proxy server you set up at home instead of useing theirs is legal, just against their rules. Now cracking/hacking the network is something entirely different and is protected by computer intrusion laws. >>



Ok, the way I read the laws that would not be permissable. I almost remember the word "circumventing" which would include the use of proxies. Either way, he should get his ass booted off the network.

 

[bigdaddykane]

thank you people for the help. i'm not trying to do any ilegal things i just want to be able to change my port # on morpheus cause they are blocking port 1080. thanks again

 

[ttn1]

<<
thank you people for the help. i'm not trying to do any ilegal things i just want to be able to change my port # on morpheus cause they are blocking port 1080. thanks again >>



Do you realize how ridiculous that staement sounds. Don't you think they block that port for a reason??

I'll bet they don't want the entire university running Morpheus. Just like all the universities that blocked Napster.

It's amazing how slow a universities pipe can be when everyone is streaming music and movies.

 

[Hoober]

Yeah, try 2.6Kbps on 3 T1's average download.

We're still trying to track down the streamers....