Ways to test web access automagically

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (dsr at tao.merseine.nu)]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:48:49AM -0500, David Hummel wrote:
> 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.


I've been running a web server on port 80 since... 1997 on
Comcast and its predecessors. Once there was a few days of
blocking -- which I complained about, and shortly thereafter
it went away.

Perhaps this is done on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis?

-dsr-

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