Firewall

Our networks are behind the University's Campus firewall. This means that traffic to us is automatically dropped at the edge of campus unless we have exceptions added for it.

Current Exceptions

Office Terminals

No exceptions in the campus firewall.

General Use

• Port 22 (SSH), plus additional ports on taurine
• Ports 28000-285000 (TCP/UDP general use)

Webserver

caffeine has ports 80 and 443 open

Mail

Mail has ports 80, 443, 143, 993, 25, 587 open

Adding Exceptions

The CSC systems committee can request additional exceptions by emailing request@uwaterloo.ca