Warning: When you connect through an commercial ISP, you are not "on the UIC campus"

Duh, right? But this has consequences. For various reasons, chiefly security, privacy, and licensing, some services, Web pages, and FTP downloads have "IP restrictions." These restrictions mean that they only work when accessed from machines with UIC IP addresses (128.248.x.x or 131.193.x.x.).

UIC Bluestem authentication can often solve this problem for people connecting from outside campus via commercial ISPs.

If there's a UIC resource that you can't use from home because of IP restrictions, ask the resource's provider to contact the ACCC; we'll help them to also accept authentication with Bluestem.

If the problem is a file transfer, you can either download the file in an on-campus lab to a floppy or a Zip disk and take the disk home with you, or you can use the two-step method: log in to your tigger or icarus account, download the file to there, then transfer the file from tigger or icarus to your machine.

We talked about another consequence in the last issue of this newsletter -- you can't use the ACCC's outgoing SMTP email servers when you're not on campus. We didn't mention it then, but you should also use your ISP's DNS -- domain name server -- too, not because you can't use ours, but because theirs will be much faster.