Comcast now blocking port 80

[dhml at comcast.net (David Hummel)]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:52:07AM -0500, Bill Horne wrote:
> 
> It's official: Comcast support has confirmed that they're blocking
> port 80 request going "outbound" (to their customers).

This has been going on for a while.  I was finally able to extract this
information from a reluctant tier 2 tech support person back in October.

> To solve the problem, those of you running Apache can visit
> http://www.dyndns.org. They'll let you use up to five forwarding
> addresses for free, and they include port translation.

Cool.  I was forced to configure Apache to listen on a different port,
so this will come in handy.

-David