You got me how or why, but I can reach port 80 on my system from outside
the @Home service.
Would others outside of @Home care to test this?  (Just in case the
hosting service I shell to is somehow within @Home's domain.)
http://wokan.home.dhs.org/

Bob George wrote:
> "Jeffrey Pyne" <jpyne@worldatwork.org> wrote:
> > [...]
> > Have you ever seen NNTP scans from networks other than @Home's?  Or
> rather,
> > do you think they would ever think to do port scans from a network other
> > than their own?  I'm guessing not, so I just have my firewall block
> > everything with a source address of 24.0.0.0/8, and then allow in any
> > specific addresses in that range that I want to have access to my
> services.
> > So far that's worked for the last 2.5 years or so....
> That may have worked in the past, but from what I've seen, all access to
> ports 80 and 25 is blocked coming into their network, not just to specific
> hosts.  Port 80 to my system is definitely blocked, even though I definitely
> had nothing running there. Same on a couple of others locally. If they just
> shut it off at the edge(s) of their network, they don't have to bother with
> scanning anymore. I'm not sure if this is a Cox or an @Home initiative.
> - Bob