[CQ-Contest] Is there any HTTP cluster streams (not telnet)?

[Gerry Hull]

Agreed.   The policies change over time.
I’m on 300 MB consumer cable service.

A VPS can be rented for a $1-$3 a month that will run a bunch of
ham-related services, so that’s the easy way to get open IP4 box.  I have
my DX cluster on a dedicated, big Windows 2016 Server I rent for very short
money.

www.lowendbox.com is a meta site for such stuff.   I prefer vultr.com —
simple to use, very inexpensive and great bandwidth.

Gerry

On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 6:41 PM rjairam at gmail.com <rjairam at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some do, some don't.
>
> Over the years as web hosting and gotten cheaper and running
> webservers from home has fallen out of favor some have removed the
> block.
>
> For business class internet they generally do not block.
>
> Comcaast in particular hasn't blocked 80. Verizon and Time warner used
> to. I haven't run a home server in a while so that may have changed.
>
> Ria
>
> On Sun, 26 May 2019 at 18:32, Gerry Hull <gerry at yccc.org> wrote:
> >
> > I’m on Comcast, one of the largest ISPs in the nation, and it is not
> blocked.
> >
> > On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 6:02 PM rjairam at gmail.com <rjairam at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Bear in mind that port 80 is blocked by most home ISPs, which is where
> most
> >> DX cluster nodes reside.
> >>
> >> 73
> >> Ria
> >> N2RJ
> >>
> >> On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 2:26 PM Jack Haverty <k3fiv at arrl.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On 5/22/19 7:37 PM, Gerry Hull wrote:
> >> > > The problem with
> >> > > running telnet on port 80 is that it is the well-known http port.
> You
> >> > can
> >> > > telnet to http and vice versa, but it would not be much fun.
> >> >
> >> > IIRC, port assignments are just a convention adopted by "the
> community"
> >> > back in the 80s.  Unless something has changed since I was involved in
> >> > that fray, there is no enforcement of such conventions.
> >> >
> >> > That means that anyone, anywhere, can bring up a Telnet-based server
> >> > listening on port 80, instead of the conventional web server that
> >> > listens there.  Clients could then connect using telnet to that
> server,
> >> > but of course they'd need to be using programs that they can somehow
> >> > tell to use port 80 instead of the conventional telnet port.  Web
> >> > connections to such a server "would not be much fun", but telnetting
> to
> >> > port 80 should work fine.
> >> >
> >> > Perhaps one of the cluster operators would add a "port 80 service" to
> >> > their cluster, using a different internet address from any current web
> >> > server.  Or someone could bring up a "gateway" server, located outside
> >> > of firewalls, that patches incoming telnet connections on port 80 to
> >> > outgoing connections to the clusters using the standard telnet port.
> >> >
> >> > Firewalls that rely on simply blocking some ports are pretty flimsy as
> >> > barriers.  If you look at how common "apps" like games, house
> >> > controllers, news readers, et al manage to "call home" to their
> >> > corporate servers, you'll probably find that they sidestep firewalls
> by
> >> > simply using port 80 to communicate with their servers somewhere out
> on
> >> > the Internet.  Ham radio servers could do the same.
> >> >
> >> > The long-term solution is some successor to Telnet...but there are
> >> > "hacks" that would work in the interim.
> >> >
> >> > /Jack 73 de K3FIV
> >> >
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