Could comcast be blocking port 6667 outbound?

[Matt Galster]

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>From: discuss-bounces at blu.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at blu.org] On Behalf Of
John Chambers
>Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 9:01 PM
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>Subject: Re: Could comcast be blocking port 6667 outbound?
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>Bill Horne wrote:
>| Sorry to butt in, but I'm confused by the various "outbound" vs.
>| "inbound" labels on this topic.
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>| Let's agree on a standard definintion of "inbound" and "outbound", so 
>| we know what direction(s) we're discussing:
>|
>| 1. Inbound refers to traffic coming FROM comcast TOWARD my machine 2. 
>| Outbound refers to traffic going FROM my machine TOWARD comcast.
>|
>| Does that work for everyone?
>
>That's exactly how I use them.  I guess I'd assume that those are the usual
definitions.
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It might be more useful or precise to say that outbound is a connection
initiated by your computer to that port on remote computer.  Inbound is a
connection initiated by an external computer to a specific port on your
computer.

Example:  If a POP3 connection is outbound, the "traffic" flows towards your
machine.  You initiated the connection, so it is outbound.  You sent out an
initiative connection to a remote computer's port 110.  I would say traffic
is needlessly ambiguous.

The direction is determined by the end at which the port is specified.  You
open specific ports at your end for inbound connections.  

MEG