ACU
20th April 2005, 07:06
Hey all. This follows on from an old post:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=213483
But this is a different question so i thought a new topic was needed. Even before i posted the old thread, back when i was getting the "[yp_add] error connecting to yp.shoutcast.com" error message, I didn't think there was a real problem with the streaming because i was able to connect to the stream via this link:
http://10.40.4.253:8000/listen.pls
As i was at uni, i only checked the accessability from other computers within my university. I thought the error might have been some yellow pages problem and i didn't really care about that. But then after i told people to listen in from home, they said they couldn't, and someone suggested firewall problems as the reason, so then i posted the previous topic, to which i found it is most likely true. But someone else went past me and sent an email to my uni IT department asking about the firewall, and got this response:
>the server has a private (internal) address it won't be accessible from outside >regardless of firewalls etc.
>
>you would need a public address which would need to be authorised by ITCS >Infrastructure group and I doubt if that would be forthcoming primarily for security >reasons, such a server being not under the control of ITCS systems admins could >be a hole to allow hackers to gain access to the ACU network.
So my question is, is that just a BS line to get rid of us pesky students? Anyone with some solid facts and truths in laymens terms for me would be fantastic, i don't know enough about computers to know if i'm being fed BS or not, or how to come up with a solution.
Thanks again,
Trev.
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=213483
But this is a different question so i thought a new topic was needed. Even before i posted the old thread, back when i was getting the "[yp_add] error connecting to yp.shoutcast.com" error message, I didn't think there was a real problem with the streaming because i was able to connect to the stream via this link:
http://10.40.4.253:8000/listen.pls
As i was at uni, i only checked the accessability from other computers within my university. I thought the error might have been some yellow pages problem and i didn't really care about that. But then after i told people to listen in from home, they said they couldn't, and someone suggested firewall problems as the reason, so then i posted the previous topic, to which i found it is most likely true. But someone else went past me and sent an email to my uni IT department asking about the firewall, and got this response:
>the server has a private (internal) address it won't be accessible from outside >regardless of firewalls etc.
>
>you would need a public address which would need to be authorised by ITCS >Infrastructure group and I doubt if that would be forthcoming primarily for security >reasons, such a server being not under the control of ITCS systems admins could >be a hole to allow hackers to gain access to the ACU network.
So my question is, is that just a BS line to get rid of us pesky students? Anyone with some solid facts and truths in laymens terms for me would be fantastic, i don't know enough about computers to know if i'm being fed BS or not, or how to come up with a solution.
Thanks again,
Trev.