It will not let me ping any website whatsoever. If I try to go to worldofwarcraft.com (example) it will tell me that the ISP restricts the site.

That, of course, is no big deal. What's a big deal is that on other sites that it restricts, it is much more brutal than your standard blocked website message. If I try to, for instance, gmail.com it will act like the server is not responding to my query, which, of course, means it's not.

Which means the isp or the firewall is not letting gmail send me a response at all, to the point that my computer thinks that I spelled the fucking website wrong.

It does this on various websites.

Worse yet, this isp does not have any open ports, at all, save one which is as of yet unknown to me. It is NOT port 80, they have that closed even though it is the standard http port.

Thoughts?

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I tried calling my friend, they are at work atm...

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Follow the tutorial on a site like OpenDNS.

If they are just blocking everything on a DNS level, this will fix it.

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Try going to grc.com and using the ShieldsUp! utility to find the open port. That's all I can think of for the moment.

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I'll assume that you can't change ISPs as this is the Navy, so you agree to your usage of the internet sadly being so restricted. So there's nothing you can do about that to get you more freedom.

As DefaultTo0 suggested use ShielsUp! although I believe you can only scan 64 ports at one time, so it might be a slow process trying to scan all the ports.

I really can't think of anything either to be honest, you're not exactly in the easiest situation.

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Quote: from DefaultTo0 at 10:46 am on May 26, 2008

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Try going to grc.com and using the ShieldsUp! utility to find the open port.  That's all I can think of for the moment.

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Yeah, however that only works when you're actually using (or trying to use) the port that you are probing, otherwise it will show up as stealth, and the corresponding port will probably need to be open on your computer to try and confirm which one it is (if you do find it).

I'll assume that you can't change ISPs as this is the Navy, so you agree to your usage of the internet sadly being so restricted. So there's nothing you can do about that to get you more freedom.

As DefaultTo0 suggested use ShielsUp! although I believe you can only scan 64 ports at one time, so it might be a slow process trying to scan all the ports.

I really can't think of anything either to be honest, you're not exactly in the easiest situation.

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Yeah, you can do a custom scan of 64 ports at a time.  I think you can do a scan of all service ports though (although, no good network admin would leave one of those open), which are the first 1056 ports.  It's worth a try though.

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