[ale] AT&T Broadband blocking inbound http?

Byron A Jeff byron at cc.gatech.edu
Thu Aug 9 10:16:25 EDT 2001


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> http://help.broadband.att.com/faq.jsp?content_id=792&category_id=54
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> Looks like the party is over for AT&T and @Home customers...

It's at best a minor annoyance. Since ATT is only filtering port 80, a simple
solution is to move the service to another port. I did it the first day and
my server is perfectly happy.

ATT is not contracted to support any services for home users. They've allowed
it as a courtesy. But CRII is damaging machines and sucking up network 
bandwidth. Since these services should be small time anyway, due to the fact
that ATT only has semi-static IP numbers, users such as myself should be
annoyed. But not screwed.

The filter is the correct solution.

BAJ
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