OK, so NTL cable-modem customers live on the wrong side of a transparent HTTP proxy on port 80. This is all well and good, except that the proxy isn't as "transparent" as it could be. In particular, it doesn't play nice with downstream proxies (neither Apache nor Squid) in such a way that I can't login to the BBS (and other denizens of Planet Empeg can log in via a double proxy, but not post).

So, er, Drakino, how about making the BBS available on empeg.comms.net:81 or :8080 or something as well as :80? Hopefully that's just a one-line change to httpd.conf...? That way accesses to it could bypass the broken transparent proxy, which only molests traffic on port 80.

(I need to run a downstream proxy because I've got my Windows PC behind a non-NAT firewall so that it doesn't access the Internet without me knowing.)

Peter