Using apache on a university campus

[Tiny_Guy]

First of all, now I am at college using true high speed internet, not that slow starband. Is there any way to set up apache on a college computer. Current ly I know apache is working because I can access it on my machine. My brother at home can't access it. Is it because of a firewall issue or is it something else. He tried pinging my ip address and still can't access. Can someone help me out here please?

[slartibartfasz]

[Tiny_Guy]

[devon]

Looks like they are blocking port 80.

[Tiny_Guy]

I'm trying it with port 8080, see if it works now.

[EDIT]What tool could I use to help determine the bandwidth on my university connection? Also would there be a way to determine if I am behind a firewall?[/EDIT]

[devon]

Still cannot connect.

[slartibartfasz]

if the server only has to serve a selected group of people u can make it listen to any port u want, not just 80 and 8080....

if not, perhaps u need to tell the guys at the campus net that u want to run a server. thats how they do it here - the dont have a problem with someone running a sever (of any type), but they block the ports by default to 'prevent errors'. the errors are usually windows boxes with IIS and code red or similar. but if u keep your servers clean with sensible up/donwload they let you through.

so if u talk to the guys in a sensible way, they just might let u through - try to think like the network admin
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[Tiny_Guy]

Yeah it may be blocked. I told my brother at home to ping my machine using a no-ip.com domain. The ping traffic didn't get through. Does the ping program use a particular port? I don't think the campus net uses port forwarding, but there is a possibility it does.

[dma]

Your university admins might be evil pieces of trash that block SYN packets (and hence the ability for people on the outside to establish connections to the inside).

See if sshd works. There is no legitimate reason for blocking ssh traffic as it is used primarily for remote access/administration.

I have very strong feelings about this topic.

Also, ping uses ICMP echo/reply (not on a TCP/UDP port). "tcptraceroute" works on TCP ports.

In addition, UNCC (where I go) also blocks ICMP packets at its gateway. It is also part of NCREN.

[Tiny_Guy]

Oh one thing I should mention is that I have my ip address set up as dynamic, so use the ab285.no-ip.com domain to traceroute or ping or whatever you need to do to see if you can connect. Yeah, I'll see if my brother can ssh into my machine.

[Tiny_Guy]

This topic seems finished. Apparently the admin won't allow web servers. Unfortunately I think even ssh is blocked. So unless anybody has something else to say, this topic is finished.

[dma]

Stupidity claims another campus full of victims.

Start a petition (and NOT an online one).

Get them to change their boneheaded and useless policies.

Don't let this kind of treatment become mainstream.

[TheAgent]

If you're a CS/CE/IT major/minor, you might try talking to the head/chair of your department and seeing what options they might offer...

I know at my school, the CS Department offers webhosting on their servers for CS students...
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[dma]

[Tiny_Guy]

Would it be possible to do tunneling to allow other users to connect to my web server? Can someone also explain http tunneling?

[dma]

Try running on an alternate port like 8000.

nmap yourself from the outside to see what they are filtering.

Here are the ports that my university is blocking.

[snorkel]

A university is not going to allow incoming traffic to it network, unless it is on their DMZ. You can get out because it is NATed.