Cox Cable blocking port 80?

Do they just scan the standard ports (i.e. port 80 for www), just lower
prots, or do they scan all ports?

Thanks!

Mark Phillips
Phillips Marketing, Inc.
480 945-0798 office
480 945-9197 fax
mark@phillipsmarketing.biz


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[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Bill
Warner
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 9:08 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Cox Cable blocking port 80?

Yes they block it. They also scan your system for running servers. I
had to run my web server on port 23232 just so they wouldn't bother me
about it.


On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 09:01, roland ibbetson wrote:
> Hello everyone, my name is mark and i'm new to the area and your
group.
> I have cox cable and was wondering if they block port 80 for any
reason.
> I have set up an apache webserver on slackware. Everything works fine
> within my network, behind my router. From the outside i can ssh, ftp,
> etc but cannot get to my website via port 80. I know that my router
is
> set up correctly and is correctly directing the http to my server. If
> anyone has any suggestions i'd be open to them. I don't really want
to
> call cox bcause then i'd have to deal with their issues with routers
and
> multiple computers and who knows what other nonsense. Thanks for your
> help!
>
> Ibby
>
>
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