Can You Help?

[craigtrap]

Hi!

Does anyone know of any other ports you can use for msn messenger other than 1863??

I would very much like to know

Thanks
Craig.

[chicken]

Looks like it's just that or via HTTP port 80:
http://www.mess.be/msnmessengerfaq/i...Messenger.html

I know the video/audio ports are different, but it's not going to help much if you can't connect in the first place!

Can I ask why you're trying to find other ports?

[GeorgeTuk]

If you're trying to get around a firewall (which I am guessing you are...) then good luck, most good corporate firewalls these days have all the ports listed and blocked and also check packets for incoming messages.

[Bazzlad]

It's VERY hard to block MSN Messenger unless you have a firewall/Router that can differentiate between HTTP packets and MSN packets. In fact, I don't believe it's possible.

If you're going the other way, try e-messenger.

[craigtrap]

Ah right ok, i tried the port 80 http style and well didnt work...but if there are no other ways then it doesnt matter lol

Thanks Anyway!

[Bazzlad]

If they have an ISA firewall it's night night MSN

[craigtrap]

Noooooo lmao

[99Flake]

If they have an ISA firewall it's night night MSN

We have ISA but it works fine. Don't 100% know what the rules for students are though. You won't get any video through it mind as it requires the most stupid number of ports to be open at once. Tried it and gave up.

[Bazzlad]

Your ISA firewall needs to be configured to block it - if it isn't - then it won't, but I know that you can seperate HTTPS and MSN requests with ISA, which you can't do with a standard firewall.

[chicken]

http://www.msn2go.com/

Makes me laugh how they've justified using MSN in their name!