Tatiana's tomato base

[gill_s]

Help! I cannot get connected to Tatiana's website. Does anybody know of a problem. Is there a change of web address or is it just my computer giong on strike!

[kath]

I tried many times yesterday and last night without any luck.

[kath]

Thanks, pdxwindjammer!

[pdxwindjammer]

I received an email back from Tatiana. They are experiencing a power outage due to a storm up north and she hopes to be back up soon. If you know what you plan to order, I will send you her email address. I will first check to see if she is okay with that.

Cheers!

[kath]

I really was just looking up info on some of the tomatoes I'm growing this year...everything's planted and I'm completely out of space! Thanks for the offer to help, though.

[gill_s]

Panic over. The website is up and running again today. Thanks for replies
Gill

[pdxwindjammer]

I just emailed her to let her know so hopefully it will be fixed soon for you. I ordered from her and she was very responsive and answered many questions I had before I decided which tomatoes to grow.

[amideutch]

If you are on a network sometimes that happens when they push updates. If they are filtering your access this can also cause problems. Ask your network administrator whats going on. Ami

[OneoftheEarls]

I was on there last night....

[freelancer79d]

does not work for me either

[Linda10]

Works fine for me as of an hour ago.

[dice]

That ":88" at the end of the hostname means "tcp port 88"
(usually used by kerberos). Not surprising if organizational
firewalls filter it. Their rule is usually "if it is not a destination
port for a well-known service that we know we need to allow
through the firewall, filter it."

If you are at work, and they generally let out port 80 or 8080
www connects, you can get there via an anonymous web
proxy: http://proxy.org/

Your web browser will connect to the proxy on port 80,
the standard http port, and the proxy will connect to the
TOMATObase on whatever port the dns redirect specifies
(tcp port 88 in this case).

edit:
I do not know if the www proxies pass everything. They
commonly filter ads, embedded scripts, etc. If you need
to order something or log in somewhere, be sure to check
to make sure that the lock icon in the address bar on your
browser is showing that indicates an encrypted ssl connection.

[Tania]

Dear All,

All links to TOMATObase (new and old) should work for home computers, if you have not change any default firewall settings. If the link does not work for you, it likely means that your firewall blocks http traffic on port 88.

If this is the case, please use a proxy server, i.e., http://helpmesurf.net/, or any other proxy server that Dice linked to in his post above. Just go to the proxy web page and type tatianastomatobase.com in the text box there.

Our order system should also work. Let me know if it does not work for you.

Thanks,
Tatiana

[freelancer79d]

it seems to be blocked from my work and i can not use a proxy sever from a NAVY computer

[dice]

Usually if your firewall simply unblocks tcp port 88, connects
to tatianastomabase.com will work the same as they always
did for http connects to tcp port 80. The firewall usually does
not care what application level protocol you are connecting
with (http for the World Wide Web, ssh for encrypted logins
and file transfer, smtp, pop-3, or imap connections to email
servers, and so on). The firewall only cares what the destination
port number is, whether the protocol underlying the application
level protocol is tcp or udp (or rtp or whatever), and whether
or not the destination ip address is specifically banned for some
reason.

Some firewalls are more sophisticated, inspecting packet
headers and watching for things like a switch from tcp port 80
at a nominal destination address to some other port number
at a real destination, and denying such sessions as inherently
suspicious.

edit:
For anyone that thinks this "protocol" stuff is "all Greek",
the document (.pdf) below provides an overview, so that
even if one does not know any of the details, communication
and signalling protocols are no longer a complete mystery:
http://www.spinroot.com/spin/Doc/Book91_PDF/F1.pdf