school firewall blocking ichat/adium

[Theraker007]

I cant connect with either of these programs at school, even though aim and gchat and other windows programs work fine on my friends' windows based machines.

is there a way to get these programs to work around the firewall since it doesnt seem to be specifically targeting messaging programs?

 

[Sdashiki]

meebo.com

Some places know of it and block, most dont.

 

[MacForMeOneDay]

So for clarification, are you stating that your Windows using friend can connect to the same IM networks, that iChat/Adium are not able to connect to?

One way you could check if you can get out is to open a Terminal window and telnet to the the Messaging network on the port they've specified.
I'm sure that's very confusing, but here's an example for GTalk:

Open Terminal:
Type: telnet talk.google.com 5222

If you get something like this then you are able to get through (Use control+], then type quit to get out):
Trying 74.125.65.125...
Connected to talk.l.google.com.

If you get something like this, then you are being blocked on that port:
Trying 74.125.65.125...
telnet: connect to address 74.125.65.125: Operation timed out
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

 

[Theraker007]

your clarification point is accurate..


yes, i got:

Trying 74.125.47.125...
telnet: connect to address 74.125.47.125: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host





anyway i can change the port its on?

 

[MacForMeOneDay]

your clarification point is accurate..


yes, i got:

Trying 74.125.47.125...
telnet: connect to address 74.125.47.125: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host





anyway i can change the port its on?

You can use port 443. But you have to force "Old Style SSL". I tried the example given here:http://www.joshgard.com/how-to-configure-adium-to-work-from-behind-a

And Adium was able to connect for me.
443 should be open on your network, as this is used for site using https:

 

[Theraker007]

You can use port 443. But you have to force "Old Style SSL". I tried the example given here:http://www.joshgard.com/how-to-configure-adium-to-work-from-behind-a

And Adium was able to connect for me.
443 should be open on your network, as this is used for site using https:

tried 443 and chcked the boxes.. still says SSL connection failed, tough firewall

 

[Theraker007]

You can use port 443. But you have to force "Old Style SSL". I tried the example given here:http://www.joshgard.com/how-to-configure-adium-to-work-from-behind-a

And Adium was able to connect for me.
443 should be open on your network, as this is used for site using https:

tried 443 and chcked the boxes.. still says SSL connection failed, tough firewall

 

[MacForMeOneDay]

tried 443 and chcked the boxes.. still says SSL connection failed, tough firewall

indeed.
You could try seeing if one of your Windows friends has a special setup.
You may want to do a traceroute talk.google.com and make sure its getting out of your computer.

 

[Theraker007]

indeed.
You could try seeing if one of your Windows friends has a special setup.
You may want to do a traceroute talk.google.com and make sure its getting out of your computer.

aim and google talk works for everyone on windows, btw skype works on my mac.



traceroute for gtalk

traceroute to talk.l.google.com (74.125.47.125), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 172.19.250.1 (172.19.250.1) 3.349 ms 1.309 ms 2.885 ms
2 192.168.200.10 (192.168.200.10) 3.380 ms 2.690 ms 1.271 ms

 

[MacForMeOneDay]

aim and google talk works for everyone on windows, btw skype works on my mac.



traceroute for gtalk

traceroute to talk.l.google.com (74.125.47.125), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 172.19.250.1 (172.19.250.1) 3.349 ms 1.309 ms 2.885 ms
2 192.168.200.10 (192.168.200.10) 3.380 ms 2.690 ms 1.271 ms

Is that as far as it got? You should see a path all the way to 74.125.47.125

 

[Theraker007]

Is that as far as it got? You should see a path all the way to 74.125.47.125

i think it stopped there for a while and then i pasted it here thinkng it was done, but i didnt close the terminal window b /c i forgot to and more stuff was there later on when i noticed it open..

when i go back to school ill try it again