manual Cox cable config

[Technomage]

hmmm,
real funny. I can ssh into my box from anywhere on the planet without fail (I 
know, just tried it).

I am going to try an nmap session from a remote machine (freenet.nether.net) 
and see what ports are filtered.

Technomage

On Wednesday 23 January 2002 07:02, you wrote:
> My understanding is that you only needed the old CX name during the
> conversion. It won't be needed any longer, beyond that point. I don't
> recall if I read that in their lit. or where. As for specifying name
> servers, that should all come in the DHCP package. Their instructions
> are to just set your machine to DHCP and it will get all the other stuff
> from their DHCP server - normal procedure.
>
> I got switched to a new IP (on the cox.net) last week without notice.
> Just came home and found out the IP had changed. So, last night I went
> into Cox's support.cox.net pages, entered my auth #, did the mandatory
> password change, and everything's hunky dory.
>
> Interesting thing is that it seems SSH isn't working inbound. Had
> someone test SSH to my box and couldn't connect. It would seem they
> aren't allowing that port. Anyone run into this? I know SSH is running
> on the box in question. Took down the firewall for a bit to make sure it
> wasn't a local firewall problem. No dice.
>
>