Ways to test web access automagically
David Hummel
dhml at comcast.net
Mon Jan 10 11:04:34 EST 2005
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:57:46AM -0500, dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
>
> 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?
Definitely possible ... I didn't ask this question at the time. I'm
located in the Longwood medical area of Boston. Perhaps there was
recent abuse on this portion of the network.
-David
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