unable to connect to host: Connection timed out (10060)

[John Aldrich]

No disagreement there... :-) IMNSHO, they ought to limit it to just blocking
port 25, but it's probably easier for them to block everything... :-) 

-----Original Message-----
From: boi1der [mailto:boi1der "at" yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 2:04 PM
To: John Aldrich; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
Subject: RE: unable to connect to host: Connection timed out (10060)


I can see it from their point of view, but
unfortunately, it interferes with our freedom of
remote access! :-)

--- John Aldrich <JAldrich "at" covista.com> wrote:

> You might be able to use EchoVNC which might allow
> you to bypass Comcast's
> filters. Look at it from their perspective... up
> until recently a lot of
> their clients' PCs had become zombie spam servers.
> Now they are cracking
> down on running ANY kind of server to help keep YOUR
> PC safe!
> 	John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: boi1der [mailto:boi1der "at" yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 11:39 AM
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: unable to connect to host: Connection timed
> out (10060)
> 
> 
> I'm a newbie to the list, but I just found out that
> since I'm using Comcast as my ISP, without a static
> IP
> address, Comcast won't allow any FTP, Ping, or any
> type of traffic to the IP address of my firewall. So
> I
> can't even open a port to allow the traffic through
> to
> the VNC server. So unless you want to buy a fixed IP
> address from Comcast, you can't run the software.
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