[vpn-help] general question: need to check for specific ports over vpn

[gregmail at outtacyte.com]

Matthew,

Yes, that helped clarify what I was thinking.  I was pretty sure that the
VPN wasn't the problem, but I was just stuck.

I did figure out what the problem was shortly after sending the note.  I was
thinking the software was trying to connect from my machine (where the VPN
tunnel's local endpoint is).  In reality, the software was communicating the
address information to a service on another machine which was attempting the
actual connection.  From that machine there is no VPN connection at all.

Darned details....

-g

>In other words, if you can connect to the host using ssh, http and 
>https, I can't imagine why your wouldn't be able to connect to any other 
>port on the same host ... unless its being blocked by the VPN gateway 
>firewall policy or an intermediary firewall policy.