Ways to test web access automagically
dsr at tao.merseine.nu
dsr at tao.merseine.nu
Mon Jan 10 10:57:46 EST 2005
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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