RE: AIM

["Noonan, Wesley" <Wesley_Noonan () bmc com>]

You[1] have come to a list full of, supposed, firewall admins and asked how
to circumvent the security policies that your firewall admin has put in
place. At the risk of this post never getting posted, I would hope that no
one here would offer even the slightest of assistance to you. How to get
around the blocking? Go talk to your firewall admin, instead of trying to go
around them. There is a business reason they are doing what they are doing.
If you can prove a business need for AIM, they might open it back up again.
If you can't, then you have no business using it in the first place (yes, I
am assuming that this is work based on (a) your email address, (b) the fact
that I can think of no ISP that would block anything you weren't paying to
happen, thus your ISP sounds much more like your employer to me). Thanks.

Wes Noonan, MCSE/CCNA/CCDA/NNCSS
Senior QA Rep.
BMC Software, Inc.
(713) 918-2412
wnoonan () bmc com
http://www.bmc.com

[1] I missed the original email, so while this is in reponse to jseymour's
email, I am responding to rclemens.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jseymour () LinxNet com [mailto:jseymour () LinxNet com]
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 16:36
> To: firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com
> Cc: rclemens () lausd k12 ca us
> Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] AIM
>
> "Randy Clemens" <rclemens () lausd k12 ca us> wrote:
> > My ISP just started blocking all instant messaging services through
> their
> > firewall. Is there any way to get around this besides paying for an HTTP
> > tunnel? Please help me. Thanks! (They also block certain webpages that I
> try
> > to access. Any way around that one?)
>
> Your "ISP?"  If by "ISP" you mean the k12.ca.us domain you posted
> the above from, isn't that a school network?
>
>
> Regards,
> Jim
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