Opening port 8080 on dapper

[ME Rousseau]

Plain Dapper should not have a firewall on.

Check with :

      sudo iptables -L

The defaults should be ACCEPT everywhere.

This sounds like an issue on the web host side.

Marc

On 6/17/06, ben <ben at cvrse.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:22:37 -0700
> Charlie Zender <zender at uci.edu> wrote:
>
> > None of my dapper machines seem to be able to download data from
> > remote hosts via port 8080. The error when trying to access, e.g.,
> >
> > http://dataportal.ucar.edu:8080
> >
> > is
> >
> > Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at
> > dataportal.ucar.edu:8080
> >
> > I am told this is a firewall issue. My machines are running
> > plain old dapper. I did not know it had a default firewall.
> > How do I open port 8080?
>
> dapper doesnt have a firewall installed by default so outgoing
> connections are not firewalled, trying to access that site from here
> shows the same error however connecting to another site on that port
> http://kbreit.dyndns.org:8080/ (just random site from google) it works
> fine, which would suggest to me that the site your accessing isnt
> listening on port 8080, and it seems to work on the default port 80
> fine.
> if the above site doesnt work for you possibly u have a hardware router
> thats acting as a firewall which u need to reconfigure.
>
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