[ale] <OT> ICQ and AOL IM

[Dave Brooks]

Michael B Golden wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:28:33 -0400 Dave Brooks <dbrooks at comstar.net>
> writes:
> 
> I called my dad to have him open the ports, but he looked up on AOL's
> site, and it says that the needed port is 5190 and it doesn't mention an
> authentication port at all. Are you sure the ports you listed aren't for
> something else?
> 


I dont think so.  The port your dad said may have been for AOL's windows
client, maybe?  This is what I get from looking at the TiK source:

# Set up the available tocs and auths.
set TOCS [list production]
set AUTHS [list production]
set TOC(production,host) toc.oscar.aol.com
set TOC(production,port) 9898 ;# Any port will work
set AUTH(production,host) login.oscar.aol.com
set AUTH(production,port) 1234 ;# Any port will work

..maybe thats referring to local ports, but that would seem to be a
weird thing to do.

-Dave







> >You'll also need 1234 open for the AOL Authentication.
> >
> >Gregory McLean wrote:
> >> Looks like ICQ uses 4000
> >> and AOL IM uses 9898
> >>
> >> ICQ has that 'official' java thing, a quick search on one of the
> >linux apps sites should show a few unofficial ones. Same with the AOL
> >stuff.
> 
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