Blocked Services

Some services are blocked on campus due to bandwidth and security issues. A list of explicitly blocked servers and services appears below. We may block other services if problems arise in the future. If you are having problems with a service that is not on this list let us know.

Services blocked from on-campus to the Internet

SMTP traffic from servers other than WPI's campus e-mail servers
ICMP Echo Request (ping, tracert)
Simple TCP Services: echo, discard, chargen
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
Microsoft Networking protocols (NetBIOS, WINS, mapping drives, domain logins, etc.)
Microsoft SQL Server
Universal Plug and Play
Napster and its clients
Gnutella and its clients e.g. BearShare, Newtella, Limewire, Morpheus, etc
eDonkey and its clones e.g. eMule, Overnet
Audio Galaxy
Song Spy
I-Mesh
Cute-MX
Scour Exchange
KaZaA and KaZaA Lite
Hot Line
Aimster
Swaptor
Direct Connect
Carracho
SoulSeek
Ares
Bit Torrent
EarthStation V
Share
Winny
Vonage IP Phone service
Filetopia and its clones

Services blocked from off-campus to WPI

You can use the WPI Virtual Private Network (VPN) to access these services from off-campus.

SMTP traffic to servers other than WPI's campus e-mail servers
ICMP Echo Request (ping, tracert)
Simple TCP Services: echo, discard, chargen
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Microsoft Networking protocols (NetBIOS, WINS, mapping drives, domain logins, etc.)
Line Printer Daemon (LPD) printer protocol
Microsoft SQL Server
Universal Plug and Play
Microsoft KMS (Key Management Service) for Vista licensing

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Last modified: Dec 11, 2006, 15:44 EST