Running zone on common ports?

[L.C.]

When you run a zone on say port 587, must port 588 be accessible also? :S What I am trying to do is set SSCV Realism Zone to run on common ports that colleges/universities do not have blocked so that it would be possible to play SubSpace within that zone. Proof that I know using this "trick" works is because I have my workstation setup to run VNC on 995 (POP3 SSL) and Minecraft on 22 (SSH) and have no problem accessing these ports at my college.

 

I just thought it would be an awesome idea if I could somehow achieve this.

 

FTP 21 - blocked

SSH 22 - open

Telnet 23 - blocked

SMTP 25 - open

HTTP 80 - open

POP3 110 - open

IMAP 143 - open

SMTP SSL 587 - open

POP3 SSL 995 - open

Edited January 27, 2011 by L.C.

[JoWie]

The port + 1 is only used for pinging the zone. If it is not forwarded, the zone will appear red with 0 players but you can still enter.

You try setting up a reverse tunnel to somewhere.

You could also try punching through the firewall, it is complex and the success greatly depends on the firewall they use. The fact that continuum uses UDP is a big advantage if you would try to do this.

[L.C.]

Well I tried to run SSCV Realism Zone on 22, 995, 587 -- still showed up as red. I need to try this on my workstation at my Apartment to rule out that ports <1000 on the dedicated server are reserved or not.

[JoWie]

If it shows up as red, try connecting anyway. If that does not work you also need to rule out that you can connect to your public ip address from your own network, I have seen routers that do not support this. So also try connecting from home or using a socks proxy (you can easily set one up if you have access to a server with ssh)