Tic-Tech: Bess at home

From: McNamee, Judy (JMCNAMEE@seattleschools.org)
Date: Sun Apr 15 2001 - 22:07:30 PDT

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    --- TIC-TECH message:
    Krista,

    What you did with IE is correct. However, traffic from outside the district
    to Bess is currently blocked (I'll explain why in a minute).

    If you have a static IP address at home, we can easily allow you to access
    Bess from home. Since I see that your email came from @Home, I suspect you
    do have a static address. If so, just email it to me, and we'll create the
    permission in the firewall to let you reach Bess.

    Now - why is it blocked in the first place? Originally, we left Bess
    accessible from outside, so that schools who weren't yet connected to the
    Seattle Schools network could still use the service. Unfortunately, there
    are a lot of criminals on the Internet who use open proxy servers to
    disguise their identity while they commit crimes like credit card fraud.
    When we were notified that someone had used the Bess proxy in that fashion,
    we had to deny access to it from all but known addresses.

    Thanks,
    Judy
    "McNamee, Judy" <JMCNAMEE@seattleschools.org>

     -----Original Message-----
    From: Krista Canterbury [mailto:klcanter@home.com]
    Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 12:40 PM
    To: TIC-TECH@tic.ssd.k12.wa.us
    Subject: Tic-Tech: Bess at home

    --- TIC-TECH message:
    Hi all,

    I want to preview websites at home using Bess. That way I won't be
    surprised
    at school when my kids can't do my assignment as planned.

    Does anyone know how? I tried setting up IE to use:
    bess-proxy.ssd.k12.wa.us (port 8080)
    but that didn't work.

    Does anyone know how to do it from home?

    P.S. Does anyone know if we are walking out or voting to walk out?

    Krista Canterbury
    Olympic Hills
    Grades 3&4
    klcanter@home.com

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