Author: Ed Panek
Date: 13:48:41 09/06/01
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On September 06, 2001 at 15:28:29, derrick gatewood wrote: >For the past 1 month or so I haven't been able to play on chess.net through >thier windows client nor the java app, nor have I been able to play on any of >the other real ICS'es as they all use port 5000. I was wondering how you guys >are working around this problem? Should I call up my cable company and tell >them that I desparatly need my port 5000 or I will die from withdrawal? Or >pehaps there is another work around that I have forgotten? I dont know, but I >have email chess.net support numerous times with a simple reply. Im also a >paying member there, so you would at least expect a "sorry, you're screwed" >email. nslookup of chess.net reveals 216.234.161.156 doing a quick scan of the open ports reveals that 21(FTP),22,23(TELNET),25(SMTP),79(FINGER),80(HTTP),110(POP3),111(PORTMAP),113(AUTH)4999 and 5000 gives <CR> so its open try this...Open a shell window or a Dos window and type "telnet 216.234.161.156 5000" If it gives the host name in the title bar its open. If not that means the ISP could be blocking the port. Port mapping is possible but I doubt Chess.net servers have that implemented. Ed
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