I ask very specifically. Incoming port 80 are blocked for all residential
customers in central Florida. He implied (but was not specific) that this
will be a trend for ALL residential customers.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Triplett" <btt@nethouse.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] time warner port blocking
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:22:19AM -0500, Grantham, Patrick wrote:
> > If you have not found out yet, TWC is blocking incomming tcpip port
> > 80 for their residentianl customers in central florida. Accosding
> > to the tech support (and testing proves it to be true) they are
> > presently blocking only incomming port 80. Examining my apache log
> > files, this apparently (and covertly) started Jan 24. Is anyone
> > else experiencing this? Pleading with the tech support, "Please
> > open it up for me, I use Linux," proved not to be helpful. I
> > conveyed my displeasure not having been notifued to this impending
> > change. He just gave me a number to call to complain. Is anyone
> > else experiencing this?
>
> Mine seems to be working fine. I'm in Tampa Bay. I deny 80, but I can
> see the accounting counter increment as I try to connect remotely. In
> fact, since I reset the counters on Jan 25, I've had 359 connection
> attempts.
>
> I guess there's the possiblilty that running a webserver as a
> residential customer has raised an eyebrow over there. Did the tech
> support guy say it was network-wide blocking?
>
> Bill
>
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