[Discuss] Verizon ADSL and port blocking

[bill at horne.net (Bill Horne)]

On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 11:30 -0400, Gregory Boyce wrote:

> Turn off any local firewalling, and go to http://nmap-online.com/
> 
> After a quick scan, you will likely see a mix of open, closed and
> filtered ports.  Anything open or filtered should be fine to use.
> Anything filtered is not.

I got various errors when I tried the site: "Scan ran too long",
"Forbidden", etc. If there are other ways to scan my IP, please tell me
how. 

TIA.

Bill