[Tilesathome] Bad Gateway

[Matthias Julius]

"D Tucny" <d at tucny.com> writes:

> 2008/7/16 Dirk-Lüder Kreie <osm-list at deelkar.net>:
>
>> Just to clarify: port 53087 is used as a destination port for that
>> particular IM client (as it appears), not as a source port. (as those are
>> random you cannot reliably filter against them anyway, which is what your
>> router apparently tries)
>>
>
> I don't think it's related to the port to be honest... QQ uses ports 8000
> and 8001 falling back to 80, 443 and random others... The router does
> 'advanced' pattern matching to block IM clients and P2P apps... Obviously
> it's not that clever as it's matching a ZIP file upload as a QQ IM
> connection...

... which is not visible on the TCP level, nor that it's a HTTP
connection.  This one can only guess as port 80 is mostly used by HTTP
servers.

But, can't that firewall be told what to block and what not?

Matthias