Ways to test web access automagically

[dhml at comcast.net (David Hummel)]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:13:38AM -0500, Bill Horne wrote:
> 
> Unless Comcast has started to choke port 80 requests,

That is exactly what is happening.

It was like pulling teeth to get this information out of Comcast tech
support, but a tier 2 support person finally told me that the following
TCP ports are blocked:

  80  up  <--
  135 up/down
  139 up/down
  445 up/down

This was in September 2004.

You can configure Apache to listen on an alternative port such as 8080.

-David