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What are the restrictions for incoming/outgoing connections with regards to the Turnitin Building Block and our Blackboard server?

April 26, 2017Blackboard block building incoming outgoing regards server Turnitin

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What are the restrictions for incoming/outgoing connections with regards to the Turnitin Building Block and our Blackboard server?

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For the Turnitin Building Block to work correctly, the Blackboard server needs to be able to make outgoing HTTP/HTTPS connections as well as receive incoming HTTP/HTTPS connections. One the outgoing connections, the Blackboard server is going to be trying to make connections to api.turnitin.com over the standard HTTP or HTTPS ports. Also, your Blackboard server needs to be able to receive incoming connections from our Turnitin servers. If you have a firewall in place that is not allowing outside connections to your Blackboard server, please check this. For your Blackboard servers, the ports 80 and 443 need to be accessible from our range of IP addresses, which is 208.57.158.0/24 (note, this is different from the IP address you might get when your servers try to connect to our servers).