AT&T cablemodem port blockage survey

John Chambers jc at trillian.mit.edu
Mon Aug 13 13:50:58 EDT 2001


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| The AT&T web site said they were blocking port 80. BTW: because of all
| the hits I was getting from code red, I turned off port 80 in my router.
| On 13 Aug 2001, at 10:25, David Kramer wrote:

Maybe I'm being silly, but it occurs to me that it might be useful to
point out that web servers run quite well on other ports than 80.

On a recent job, I did learn  that  the  standard  Macintosh  browser
doesn't  accept  the :port field in URLs.  But you can grab a copy of
Netscape ...

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