Re: Has anyone asked Comcast to stop blocking inbound ports?

["Brendan Kidwell-2" <user=1552@nabble.blu.org>]

 On 12/20/07, Samuel Baldwin <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
> 2007/12/20, Brendan Kidwell <[hidden email]>: 
> > Who else is in my situation, with Comcast blocking most inbound ports? 
> Can 
> > anyone list any other ports that are whitelisted besides 22 and 443? 
> 
> You could try scanning your computer with a site or from another box 
> with port scanning software (nmap or nessus). That might at least give 
> you an idea of what's making it and what's not. 


Is there an easy way to do that with just nmap? Won't I have to start every 
service I can think of first on my server in order to get results? ... It 
may be worth doing. 

I'll also look into using EFF's new toy: 
http://www.eff.org/testyourisp/pcapdiff/ --but it looks like it's a fairly 
involved procedure. 

Brendan Kidwell 

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