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Re: Has anyone asked Comcast to stop blocking inbound ports?



 Quoting Brendan Kidwell <[hidden email]>: 

> On 12/20/07, Derek Atkins <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>> 
>> Quoting Matthew Gillen <[hidden email]>: 
>> >> Turns out that Comcast is blocking port 5500... and 5501... and EVERY 
>> port I 
>> [snip] 
>> > 
>> > Not addressing the question you care about, but for added security you 
>> > should be tunneling VNC through ssh anyway. 
>> 
>> Isn't VNC on port 5900? 
> 
> 
> vncviewer listens on port 5500 by default. vncserver "connects new client" 
> on port 5500 by default. I was trying to make things super easy for my 
> brother, and I had personally setup vncserver on his computer for this 
> purpose some time ago. 


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