Port 80 still blocked for @Home users?

[Bob Cober]

Port 80 was blocked for me too, and I no longer have a LAN City.  :-(

FYI - I am sure everyone already realizes this, but it is VERY easy to
configure Apache, IIS, Tomcat, or any other web server to use some other
port than 80.  Then your web site could be accessed as www.mysite.com:8797
(note: that is not a real address).

Adding a port number to the url is so simple, it seems to me that blocking
80 really doesn't stop anyone from doing anything....


Bob




----- Original Message -----
From: David P. Schwartz <davids@desertigloo.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: Port 80 still blocked for @Home users?


> It's not the OS, per se, that's the problem here (well, unless CBOS _is_
the OS).  Somebody figured out how to create a virus that hacks
> through the CBOS command set on the modem.  Kinda like if they came up
with a way to get your e-net card to hack through to corrupt an AMI
> or Award BIOS.  Doesn't matter which OS is running, see?  The Cisco modems
could very well be running an embedded version of Linux (probably
> not, but ... possible), but the thing running on top, CBOS, would be what
was compromised.
>
> -David
>
> George Toft wrote:
>
> > I have been following the series of complaints about the Cisco 67X
> > series with regard to its vulnerabilities to Code Red et al.  My
> > question, born of ignorance about this beastie, is why can you not
> > use a Linux-based router instead?
> >
>
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