On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 00:40 -0700, Edward Norton wrote:

> For clarification on what ports are blocked by COX on residential
> networks, go to
> http://support.cox.com/sdcxuser/asp/Cox_searchresults.asp and type
> 'ports filtered' in the search box. Second link from the top of the
> search results. Good details. 


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in that this has been a continuing topic of discussion and the above
link doesn't work for anyone I am including their markup code in this
html mail which should make it clear what they are blocking.

Port
Transport
Protocol
Direction
Reason for
Filtering
25
TCP
SMTP
Both*
SMTP Relays
80
TCP
HTTP
Inbound
Web servers,
worms
135 
UDP
NetBios
Both
Net Send
Spam/Pop-ups,
Worms
136-139
UDP, TCP
NetBios
Both
Worms, Network
Neighborhood
445
TCP
MS-DS/ NetBios
Both
Worms, Network
Neighhood
1433
TCP
MS-SQL
Inbound
Worms, Trojans
1434
UDP
MS-SQL
Inbound
Worms,
SQLslammer
1900
UDP
MS-DS/ NetBios
Both
Worms, Network
Neighborhood
TCP
Subseven
Both
SubSeven
Trojan


I forgot about slammer.

Craig