Re: port 1214

From: Charles Newman (charlesnewman1@attbi.com)
Date: 03/28/02 

From: "Charles Newman" <charlesnewman1@attbi.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 07:31:12 GMT

"Ralph Miller" <rmmiller@pitt.edu> wrote in message
news:a77l1o$qhh$1@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu...
> If your IT dept has shut off incoming and outgoing access to port 1214,
> KaZaa and Grokster are virtually useless to you now. By design, they
listen
> for incoming requests on port 1214. Morpheus now uses an open source
client
> that uses a different port, but it is no longer part of the same P2P
network
> as KaZaa and Grokster. It now uses Gnutella as its backbone. We have been
> working on similar solutions here due to bandwidth problems on campus.
When
> you get almost 2000 resident students and most of them use some form of
P2P
> filesharing, your bandwidth goes to hell! And then the students have the
> gall to complain and bitch to me and want me to solve the slow network
> problem! I tell them "turn off your file sharing programs", but that just
> falls on deaf ears. Sorry for the rambling, but they don't seem to realize
> they are their own worst enemy.
>
> --
> Ralph M. Miller
> ResNet/Technology Services Coordinator
> University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
> rmmiller@pitt.edu
>
> "lord blake" <lordblake@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3a261cf3.0203190128.459b6e36@posting.google.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > The IT dept. at work just shut port 1214 which
> > is used by morpheus or kazaa P2P solutions.
> >
> > It is not a bandwidth issue, they claim it's a security
> > one. Is that true ? I believe they have no clue.
> >
> > Is there a way I can still have access to P2P ?
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > LB.
>
>

     How do you know they are not circumventing that
at your university, by using socks proxies on ports other
than 1080? They are hard to find, but they do exist.

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