cocoaforge

I'm sure someone on here has asked this before, and I'm sorry for reposting, but I couldn't find any topics on the matter. Please don't lynch me

Anyway, I'm trying to connect to AIM from work, I work at an elementary school and they have a pretty nazi firewall blocking all kinds of things. I can connect to Google talk through iChat and GameRanger, but nothing in Adium (AIM or YIM) works. I'm a little fuzzy on this whole ports thing, so if anyone could help me out with this, it would be greatly appreciated.

try going into system preferences (if you can I know school computers have all kinds of blocks and crap) and try going under sharing and mess around with the firewall stuff. I bet there is some way that you can make it so you can let certin programs in and out of the firewall. Although since your using a school computer I'm not sure what you will be allowed to do...

This is my own iBook, I just take it to work with me, so I could do whatever the hell I wanted to it, the firewall isn't on the individual computers, it's on a DNS server somewhere up the line, so turning it off isn't really an option.

Well Im not sure how to get around the firewall. I'm sure someone here will help you out! 8)

I think the Ports that AIM uses are ports 5190-5200. You can open up ports in:

System Preferences -> Sharing -> Firewall

hope this helps

The problem isn't on my computer here, there's no firewall set up on my computer. I'm beginning to think it may not even be a matter of ports, but a matter of the address (toc.oscar.com or whatever) being blocked. i tried both servers that i could find, login.oscar.com, and the toc one, neither work. are there any other servers?

Well there may not be a way that you can hook up AIM because of the firewall they have up. Since you dont have authorization you cant exactly change it either... Sorry I dont know what else to say but good luck.

Oscar listens on port 80 as well…

Or use a proxy server to get around it....My school isn't smart enough to block ports though, just certain pages. But the proxy would work.

i think a proxy would work, but i have no idea how to work with a proxy

i got an address for a proxy server, but for some reason it still wouldn't connect, i have no idea why, though, it would just try and connect for like 30 seconds, then stop, try again, then stop, then after a few times, finally stop...

the more i think about it, the more i think it must be the address and not the port, since it won't connect on port 80, and there's no way they could have a firewall on port 80... right?

i have a computer at home that sits quietly and does nothing, could i set it up as a proxy server and connect to it from work?