[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by Kleber Vanila

Hello fellows, here speaks Vanila - yes, that´s me! - and who´s alive aways appears...

I´ll be the more brief as I can: I´m connected to the net using the college pc´s, and every time I try to listen to the "56k" link ro another, something wrong happens...I believe that there´s some firewall, I´m not sure about this, so thát´s what appears....

So what can I do about this? I heared about "proxys", but I don´t know how and if it works with this case.

Can you help this old prog-fellow to stay connected once more to Aural Moon mothership?? Please, I need to stay tuned again, and wash my mind from the everyday´s noises with this splendid music!!

I thank you all from now... and my sincere "hellos"!!!

Vanila

Hi Van,

It's possible that your college has blocks on non-standard port or is blocking streaming audio/video. I don't know the student population at your college but at many universities and colleges in the states, this is a problem because of the drag it induces on the college network backbone.

You could try command such as traceroute to see if you are getting packet routing to the auralmoon stream server (eg; traceroute live.str3am.com ).

If your college's network administration has you blocked, you should see where the trace fails. This is not always 100% accurate as some routers and firewalls are setup to ICMP no-passthru mode. If this is the case, you can try an older trick. Use telnet to try to connect to the streaming server. This is the command: telnet live.str3am.com 2010 -- where the 2010 is the port which servers the 56K stream. If you get a connect, type a carriage return and it should drop your connection since that violates the stream server protocol. If you can connect this way, let me know here and we'll take it from there.