[Gllug] Firewalls suddenly blocking port 80? But how? And how can I check with no web access which device?

[M.Blackmore]

On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 21:59 +0100, Chris Bell wrote:
> so are unable to view
> its logs, graphs, and other facilities. 

Fortunately I do and have been through things turning things off just in
case of a conflict with the adsl modem and its built in firewall. What I
didn't write down - I now discover - in my home high security <cough>
ringbinder was the password for the Dynamode which I had reset on
obtaining it a few years back and seem to have forgotten. Damn it.
Bloody illness has significant cognitive impacts alas and memory is one
of them, not the man I was a few years back as they say...

Wish I understood more of what I see on the web page interface. I've
tried accessing the IPcop box via 81: and it instantly goes to 445 port
and the web page screens so that indicates that the thing is accepting
port 80 calls from its green interface...?

And I have accessed the Dynamode on 10.0.0.2 via the web page on the
desktop without direct access so that, I surmise IF the dynamode is
putting out its web page on port 80, indicates that the IPcop box is
receiving and sending out packets on port 80. Is that a reasonable
assumption to make about its behaviour?

I missed the internet revolution in the 90s when I changed direction to
academia in urban economic regeneration, then came down will with an MS
like degenerate disease and then hit by a wave of babies when the wife
went broody in her 40s and landed me holding the sproggets as I wasn't
working anymore, and between one thing and another my knowledge is very
very shallow indeed despite using Linux for almost exactly 10 years as a
simple "luser" who got fed up with virii and also ideologically in
support of free/open software (not too sure about the open bit though
remembering the Eric Raymond debates way back when compared to
freedom...)

But I've medicated for the night and begin to ramble....

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