FYI: @home fun: new and improved filtering

[Matt Alexander]

I can understand them blocking port 80 in light of the Code Red nonsense, but blocking port 25 was just annoying.


On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, David A. Sinck wrote:

>
> Well, at least for my @home host, cox has decided that I'm not smart
> enough to filter errant packets by myself.  Soo, inbound smtp and www
> are filtered out.  I've run up the support tree to level 2 and even
> got a special code red coping center hotline, but all of them had zero
> clue as to actual filtering going on.
>
> TOS Compliance Statement: Not that I had a webserver or smtp server
> mind you, but it's right funny to watch the firewall burn packets.
>
> David
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