Re: printer problem

["Don Kendrick" <don () hackertrackers net>]

Take a look at hping...you can kinda trouceroute

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On 5/8/01 at 9:20 AM hermit1 wrote:

> I have a very odd problem.  There are people here using a remote printer,
> and last week they lost access to the printer.  Of course they blamed the
> firewall, but FW-1 logs show the connections going out just fine.  Doing a
> telnet to the remote IP on port 515 times out.  Traceroute, ping, telnet -
> all reach the destination.  We tried from home (two different ISPs) and
> could not connect on port 515.
>
> Sounds like port 151 was blocked at their end, but users from other sites
> can reach that printer without trouble.  Their network person can reach
> the
> printer from his home ISP, and print.
>
> My guess is that someone somewhere put a block on port 515.  Is there any
> way to find such a block?  Doing traceroute on port 515 would be good.....
>
> Thanks,
> hermit1
>
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Don Kendrick, CNE, GCIA, CCNA, CISSP

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