[ale] AT&T Broadband blocking inbound http?

Byron A Jeff byron at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Aug 7 08:38:25 EDT 2001


Chris,

sorry for the extra copy.

> 
> Before I call AT&T and start complaining, has anyone else w/ AT&T's
> Broadband service noticed that inbound http traffic is being blocked?  I
> can still attach over https and other ports (SSH, SMTP, etc) still seem
> work.

I just checked my site. It's blocked. And it wasn't yesterday.

> 
> This seems to have started after they experienced some service outages
> yesterday.  Their support line and website also mention the Code Red and
> SirCam viruses, so I'm wondering if they've decided to try and fight this
> by blocking that traffic.

I guess so. It's funny because of course those virii don't affect Apache.
Guess I'll bump up to port 81 for a while.

BAJ
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