On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:57:50PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > Recently I've had to move my webserver from port 80 to another > port (TimeWarner finally blocked off 80 for all personal accounts). For > some dumb reason I chose 79, and now Netscape gives me security errors > saying that access to this port has been disabled for security reasons. > There gotta be a way to disable that security check in Netscape.ad, I just > can't seem to find the option. Does anyone know which option in which file > has to be removed/modified to allow netscape access to port 79? > Please cc me, I am not subscribed. > Thanks, > Andrei
along with port 79, netscape also blocks out port 87. Basically so that no one can use netscape to do nasty things to finger or the ttylink <?> If you're manually specifying the port, anything above 1024 will be free. -- Adam McDaniel Infrastructure Technology Consultant M-Tech Mercury Information Technology, Inc.