Re: [Gnumed-devel] Fwd: RE: 1. port remapping/redirection

[J Busser]

At 10:27 AM +0200 9/20/04, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> We think the ISP only
> >  >blocks a few ports ...135,137,139 (Windows NetBIOS/CIFS/etc) and
> >  >80/443 (HTTP/HTTPS).  They might block 21 (FTP) as well.
> >  >The ISP can either block all ports (crippling their service) or just
> >  >some ports which is obviously what they must do
> >  >... so we are left with picking non-standard HTTP/HTTPS ports.
> I see. So basically we could simply assume/expect port 5432 to
> be accessible on your machine. Which is the port PostgreSQL is
> listening on.

Sounds correct. We will know better once I have had a chance to get 
PostgreSQL running on my server and to attempt to connect to it from 
outside my home.