Tunneling port 80, sometimes yes, sometimes no

davidjxyz_at_gmail.com
Date: 10/31/05 

Date: 31 Oct 2005 10:07:57 -0800

Hello all,

I have putty set up to act as a simple VPN, tunneling ports 25, 80,
443, and 8080. Mostly it works, sometimes though, it doesn't.

I can watch the tunneling being set-up with the event log, and smtp
(25) seems always to work, as does 8080. The event log records the
tunnelled connections.

But if I try 80, either through a browser or just by "telnet localhost
80", it doesn't always work (but sometimes, yes).

Not that it either works for the whole session, or not at all, so it's
something that's happening when it's launched.

Any clues as to what might be going on?

Thanks,

David.

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