Someone had mentioned that http://www.watchtower.org was down. That is true, to an extent. Below is a quick scan of all open ports under the Watchtower.org domain:
* + 161.58.223.204 watchtower.org
|___ 21 File Transfer Protocol [Control]
|___ 220 watchtower.org ftp server (Version 5.4.3) ready...
|___ 22 SSH Remote Login Protocol
|___ SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_2.9p2.
|___ 23 Telnet
|___ ..%
|___ 25 Simple Mail Transfer
|___ 26
|___ 220 watchtower.org ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.6 ready at Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:31:56 -0400 (EDT)
|___ 79 Finger
|___ must provide username...
|___ 100 [unauthorized use]
|___ 106 3COM-TSMUX
|___ 200 watchtower.org poppassd 1.0.4 starting, enter username..
|___ 110 Post Office Protocol - Version 3
|___ +OK QPOP (version 2.53 [i]) at watchtower.org starting. ..
|___ 119 Network News Transfer Protocol
|___ Error: (2) Could not open config file /etc/vnews.conf.
|___ 143 Internet Message Access Protocol
|___ * OK watchtower.org IMAP4rev1 v10.191 [i] server ready..
|___ 443 https MCom
|___ 465 ssmtp
|___ 513 remote login a la telnet;
|___ 514 cmd
|___ 990
|___ 992
|___ 993
|___ 995 SSL based POP3
|___ 2401 cvspserver
|___ 3030
|___ 4040
|___ 5050 multimedia conference control tool
|___ 5150 Ascend Tunnel Management Protocol
|___ ACE (Version 1.1.6) ready...
|___ 5190 America-Online
|___ 5540
|___ 7070
|___ 7878
|___ 8080 Standard HTTP Proxy
|___ 9090
For those techies that understand what this list means, it means that the WTBTS has intentionally shut down their web server operating on port 80(the normal port that your browser connects to when you enter a web address). BUT, you can still visit their website if you access it through port 443, which is their encrypted web server. To do so, just add an "s" after "http". Or you can put a ":443" after watchtower.org(:443). https://www.watchtower.org
I wonder what the reason for this removal is? Email, telnet, ftp, etc. all still work fine. Is there going to be a major revamp on their website? Or are they now heeding their own advice and killing their site? Any thoughts?
Jourles