[AG-TECH] beacon, vtc, multicast???

[Moses, Jennifer (Cont,ARL/CISD)]

We have been trying to use the PIG 1.2 here at the Army Research
Laboratory for a while, and finally discovered the problem with 7777.
Until moo uses another port, we are unable to use the PIG software
properly since ARL blocks port 7777 and there's essentially no hope of
getting it unblocked. I, for one, whole heartedly support the port
number being changed.

Thanks,
Jen Moses

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles R. Anderson [mailto:cra at WPI.EDU] 
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 10:25 AM
To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] beacon, vtc, multicast???

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:01:22AM -0400, Gurcharan S. Khanna wrote:
> could someone refresh my memory? doesn't  the moo run over port
> 7777 also? and wasn't that also a problem due to that port being
> blocked or squeezed because it was the napster port? (it was always
> extremely slow for us; i guess there's a proxy now or something?).
> seems like some other port number would be more useful in these
> filtered environments. why is 7777 the port of choice?

Isn't a lot of the work on this software done by students?  Perhaps
they are trying to make a statement by choosing that port :)