AT&T cablemodem port blockage survey

[mike at bilow.com (Michael Bilow)]

This is an interesting idea.  What you are looking for is essentially
domain parking and forwarding, much like several services offer, except
that you want a port number to be part of the target?  That is, instead of
"http://www.whatever.com/"; being redirected to "http://1.2.3.4/"; it would
be redirected to "http://1.2.3.4:8080/"; or some other port?  If there is a
significant demand for that service, we might consider selling it.  I
would be curious to know what level of interest people have.

-- Mike


On 2001-08-13 at 16:59 -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote:

> Are there any web redirection sights which act like a tzo.com, where you
> can give it a URL and port number and point everyone just to the URL?  If
> the port number changes, the user still goes to the URL, but the site
> covertly redirects the user to the new port number you specify, with the
> user never knowing what happened?
> 
> This would permit port 80 blocks to take affect, and the user to change to
> whatever available port you want, and incoming connections to continue
> with little-to-no downtime and without knowing/caring about ports.
> 
> Scott
> 
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, John Chambers wrote:
> 
> > --------
> >
> > Here in Waltham it's blocked, too.  Maybe I'll move my  server  to  a
> > higher port. As far as I know, I'm the only one using it, for testing
> > a bunch of CGI ideas.   That  would  probably  also  stop  the  silly
> > attempts  by  advertisers to bounce GETs off the server (all of which
> > are rejected, but I still get one or two an hour).
> >
> > | I live in Cambridge, and as of sometime this past weekend, 80 has been
> > | blocked.
> > |
> > | Doug
> > |
> > | On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, David Kramer wrote:
> > |
> > | >
> > | > So here I am with my AT&T cablemodem (ex MediaOne, ex Roadrunner), happily
> > | > serving up useless web pages for all to see.  I keep hearing about AT&T
> > | > users who are losing port 80.  I can only assume it is being done region
> > | > by region.
> > | >
> > | > So of the AT&T users out there, if your port 80 is blocked, what area do
> > | > you live in?

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