Quoting Post Archived Topic: It will not be bumped to the top of the forum. Topic Networking Experts Membername   Not a member? Sign Up Free (takes 20 seconds) Password   Forgotten your password? Post Font: Verdana Arial Black Georgia Comic Sans Impact   Size: Tiny Normal Big Huge   Color: Default Dark Red Red Orange Brown Green Olive Cyan Blue Dark Blue Indigo Black [ Check Spelling ] [ Post Preview ] [ LiveTags ] Quote: from [m]medjai[/m] at 6:49 pm on April 12, 2008[quote]So I'm using an ISP called Navy Network Information Center (NNIC) down here at Talega in Camp Pendleton, CA, and it's basically the gayest blazing fast ISP possible. 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?[/quote] FAQ Keyword Search: Post Options Favorites Manager Notify me of new replies to this topic by email Notify me of new replies to this topic by private message Original Post medjai Posted at 6:49 pm on April 12, 2008 So I'm using an ISP called Navy Network Information Center (NNIC) down here at Talega in Camp Pendleton, CA, and it's basically the gayest blazing fast ISP possible. 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?

Replies DefaultTo0 Posted at 1:49 pm on May 26, 2008 Quote: from marshmellowman at 1:04 pm on May 26, 2008 Quote: from DefaultTo0 at 10:46 am on May 26, 2008 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. 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. 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. marshmellowman Posted at 5:04 am on May 26, 2008 Quote: from DefaultTo0 at 10:46 am on May 26, 2008 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. 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. DefaultTo0 Posted at 2:46 am on May 26, 2008 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. vitamin Posted at 8:57 am on April 13, 2008 first doing a trace route (tracert) so I can get an idea of the traffic and hops. Post your results here!!! medjai Posted at 7:08 pm on April 12, 2008 Also to the DNS person I don't see how changing the DNS server that this computer or even the switch I broke into will fix any of my problems, explain. medjai Posted at 6:59 pm on April 12, 2008 Considering that I broke into a solid steel server box with a rather unconventional double lock securing system to access this switch and thus the internet, on a camp where all they do is research, development, and administration, I'd imagine I could get yelled at for this but hey what can you do I'm a MART Marine and it's not like it's MY fault they put us in the hooch that had the switch in it, secured or not. Plus, no one told us we couldn't. Miden Posted at 6:52 pm on April 12, 2008 heh, almost sounds like your not supposed to use that ISP. drifting Posted at 6:51 pm on April 12, 2008 Try changing your DNS. Follow the tutorial on a site like OpenDNS. If they are just blocking everything on a DNS level, this will fix it. Synthetic Posted at 6:51 pm on April 12, 2008 I'm thinking very hard on this, a friend of mine had the same problem but unfortunately I can't solve it. I tried calling my friend, they are at work atm... grumpyzrp Posted at 6:51 pm on April 12, 2008 they are a bunch of idiots All 10 previous replies displayed.