[BBLISA] outbound ports 8080/40443 firewall question

[Eric J. Hansen]

It's a long story, but it has to do with load balancing.
The main concern is we want to make sure that general end-users won't
have problems getting to the site through their personal/corporate
firewalls.


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> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:11 PM
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> Subject: Re: [BBLISA] outbound ports 8080/40443 firewall question
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> 
> Why do you want to run these things on nonstandard ports?  
> What is the 
> goal to this?
> 
> -miah
> 
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:39:15PM -0400, Eric J. Hansen wrote:
> > We're looking at setting up a special website on alternate TCP ports
> > such as 8080 and 40443 (i.e., http://www.mysite.com:8080).  
> This would be
> > accessible by the Internet at large, and ideally as many 
> end users as
> > possible. My question to the group has to do with corporate 
> and/or personal
> > firewalls -- namely, do you think these (or similar 
> non-standard) ports are
> > likely to be blocked so end users can't browse to these URL's?
> > 
> > I looked through some docs about the Microsoft XP personal 
> firewall as
> > well as ZoneAlarm, but couldn't find a definitive list of 
> what outbound
> > TCP ports would be allowed (not cause an alert/pop-up.)
> > 
> > thanks
> > Eric
> > 
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