Wanna help me test an FTP? (drat, campus network mystery carries on)

Killbat

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Try to connect your FTP clients to [ip removed]
The anonymous logon should give you read-only access to a smattering of crud. Tell me if it works for you, and tell me how fast it is if you're on broadband. It won't be up for long.

[edit] It's down, a failure.
 

j0lly

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<< FTP result:

Connecting to 131.151.189.164, Port 21 (#1)
ERROR: Connection timed out
>>

 

Killbat

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Then the mystery continues.... :confused:

You see, somehow my computer on the campus network is exposed to the Internet. When I ran some personal firewall software, I found that internet addresses from several broadband clients (and AOL :)) were contacting me. I want to know how.
 

Soybomb

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You ftp tease....

perhaps those people were hitting another port other than ftp that is unblocked?
 

Killbat

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Web-based security scans work on me. They have successfully detected some trivial information about my computer. I had sully run a trace to me, and it went 16 hops, then quit.
 

MJT2k

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Start your ftp server and go to another computer on the campus network. Then try to get to the ftp server. There is 90% chance that most incoming ports are blocked on the school's IP's.
 

SendTrash

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have you tried different ports?

if they allow online gaming, then 27910 is a quake 2 port... also port 80 is sometimes left open because webpage serving usually isn't a big deal