[ale] DSL woes

[JK]

If you install Cygwin on the windows box and pick netcat (nc)
during the install process, you can tell netcat to listen on
any TCP port you want.  I think recent versions can do UDP as
well.

-- JK


On 3/30/2010 10:33 AM, Jim Lynch wrote:
> I'm having trouble with BS  sorry ATT DSL.  (I know, what's new).  Here
> a few months back one of my apps developed a hearing problem.  It was
> hung from a non standard port and for some reason I could not get to
> that port from the WAN.  I determined the firewall in the router is
> still set up right.  Kinda strange, the non standard ports that I have
> opened all of the time still work however the ones I bring up and down
> don't.  It's like they did a port scan and closed all my unused ports
> for me.
>
> Anyway they won't talk with me about the problem unless I'm running
> Windows. So I'm going to disconnect everything from the modem except a
> switch and a Win XP box and run something listening to a blocked port so
> I can prove to them it isn't working.  I don't have much hope they will
> do anything about it but I'm going to try.  Can someone suggest an
> application that listens on a non standard port or something that lets
> you config the port on Win XP?  Preferably a free one.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim.
>
>
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