firewall

Nginx not responding to remote IP

I just installed Nginx listening on 8083 I can get a HTTP response when sending a HTTP request from the local machine. eg: curl -i localhost:8083 However, when I do the same from a remote machine, it just hangs until the ssh times out, or when the browser times out if accessed from the browser. I pretty much have the default confi...

Is it possible to refuse rack requests based on request method.

I am looking to refuse connections from inside a rack app. Now I currently do this in a middleware (lowest level) by simply checking: env['REQUEST_METHOD'] and if it one I don't desire I pass back either a 301 or a 404 etc... However I was wondering if there was a lower level mechanism for doing the same thing within rack itself? I kn...

Multi-site WCF Service

I have implemented a WCF service that will be used at Site A with 5 computers in the LAN accessing the service. What I would like to do is have an elevated user/administrator be able to use one of the 5 machines and query an identical service at Site B (also with 5 computers) that they will need to connect to by bypassing the LAN firewa...

Connecting to device behind firewall

I have a wpf app that needs to communicate(exchange data) with a custom designed device (we can modify the code for the device). Do I have any options to connect to the device if it is behind a firewall via http? I was hoping there would be a method where the admin would not have to forward any specific ports or do anything on his end. I...

Access WCF-service behind firewall from DMZ

Hi, I'm about to develop an service for a customer. The service will be located on the intranet behind firewalls and have a database of its own. The service will be consumed by another Web-application located on the DMZ. Now, my problem is that the company has a kind of strict policy not to open any ports from DMZ into the intranet. 1...

Android: Unable to make httprequest behind firewall

The standard getUrlContent works welll when there is no firewall. But I got exceptions when I try to do it behind a firewall. I've tried to set "http proxy server" in AVD manager, but it didn't work. Any idea how to correctly set it up? and btw: from android documentation "You can use the -verbose-proxy option to diagnose proxy connec...

Creating a heavily restricted server discovery application in c#

Dear community. I am writing you because of a new problem I need to solve, and I have now been banging my head against a wall for too long now. Basically, I need to create an application that can take care of the following: A user starts an app, which sends a broadcast to the subnet, and recieves a response of all servers there with t...

Apple push notifications - firewall?

I've read that to receive push notifications over Wifi the firewall must allow TCP traffic over port 5223. However, the network administrator tells me he needs the IP addres of the server. Would it be gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com? Thanks! ...

How to do UDP without port forwarding

Hi all, I am creating an application in C#, It should send data with UDP. Everything works fine until, I try to communicate with a PC that is on the internet behind a router. How do I fix this so that I can use UDP without port forwarding? ...

Proxy calls across a DMZ

We need to determine a quick way for our web application deployed in a DMZ to communicate to our SQL server that lives in the protected network. Only port 80 is open and available, and no direct SQL traffic is allowed across the firewall. So take the following simple system. A web page (default.aspx) makes a call (string GetData()) th...

how to get around a firewall using Tortoise

Once I try to checkout my project, Tortoise tells me: Error: Repository moved temporarily to Error: 'https://sdljlfj.com/sdfsjdlfkjskldjf'; Error: please relocate I think the firewall redirect my connection or somehow.... Does anybody know how to fix this from my side. Thanks! ...

Silverlight WCF connection blocking

Hi I have a problem calling WCF Service Method by Silverlight App. I keep getting Error in Fidler: [Fiddler] Connection to localhost failed. Exception Text: Can not connect because the target machine actively refused it: 1:50045 I use Win 7, port 50045 is unlocked. My App.config and ServiceReferences.ClientConfig are OK... Please HELP:)...

Adding firewall exceptions for other firewall products than Windows Firewall - such as Norman, Norton etc

I have a WiX installer project where I have added two firewall exceptions as part of the installer by using the WiX FirewallException. This works great when the client machine is using Windows Firewall, but I got a report that a user failed to get the solution running when using Norman's Personal Firewall. Some question regarding this: ...

books about Firewall development

Hi, i was just asked today, but i couldn't answer precisely so that's why i'm asking here :-) There is any book about Firewall design and implementations (Unix environment and C)? For sure, i could recommend TCP/IP books, and what i did, but there is some design decisions, that are not related with TCP/IP. For sure, i said about the n...

PF, load balanced gateways, and Squid

Hi, So I have a FreeBSD router running PF and Squid, and it has three network interfaces: two connected to upstream providers (em0 and em1 respectively), and one for LAN (re0) that we serve. There is some load balancing configured with PF. Basically, it routes all traffic to ports 1-1024 through one interface (em0) and everything else t...

IIS Network Firewall Configuration HTTP Forwarding Problem

Hi, I have a large quantity of images (10TB) that will be presented to our network via two clustered file servers. These servers will sit inside our corporate network behind the firewall. A website will sit inside the DMZ and will need to be able to access the images so that they can be viewed by users of the website. The firewall rules...

Using http service and its client in the same computer

I am going to develop a http service and an application as its client which both of them are in the same computer. I have 2 questions : Might any firewall block this application? If so, how can i solve the problem? Tanx in advance. ...

iPhone Port Selection - blocked?

Ok this might sound like a dumb question. Does the iPhone SDK use different ports for different actions? Like port 80 for webkit and port 25 for mail? The problem I'm having is that I can view all my content of my app in my own WLAN, but the content from MPMoviePlayer isn't working in a different WLAN environment, although the other par...

Implementing a personal firewall for Windows, how can I determine what application does a packet belong to?

I am going to build a sort of personal firewall for Windows. I've found some articles on this subject on the Net, including some questions here on StackOverflow. But all they mean to control protocols, addresses and ports. It is as well important for me to control on per-application basis. Any suggestions on where to look? ...

How does one validate an entire site?

I realize there's the W3C validator, which works great for one page. There's also the perl install they provide, but it seems to not work on a Mac or it's buggy. Given that 1) I have an entire set of local files How do I a) Validate the entire set b) do it behind a firewall c) do it simply without installing anything on my compute...