In fact, it is not behind a firewall. What is IS behind is my ISP, who filters port 80, claiming that they're doing so due to the 'Red Alert' virus. This is a blatant lie, where they charge businesses 3 times what they charge me for the same service, just to allow access to port 80. Because you know, a single home user would never run a web server right? Ugh... I called & told them "I don't even use windows!" but they are conveniently ignorant as to what the hell I'm talking about. "What's a port?" I got back... nice eh?

So naturally, I rerouted everyone to port 81 via the DNS server, which is off-site. This solves the problem, unless YOUR firewall doesn't let you out through 81... Which now seems to be a recurring problem with a number of users...

Time to switch ISP's I think...

OR, I might try pushing traffic over to port 443. I'll have to see if they've filtered that one too... :\

Also, just for nothing, I usually kill ping & finger anyway, so relying on just that isn't enough. No mac servers (<OSX) implement ping, for example.

Wait! This isn't a Parachute, this is a Backpack!