[ale] If you're on Bellsouth DSL, I recommend changing providers.

[Mike Murphy]

As I was cleaning up my firewall configuration after this, I realized I 
was forwarding to the wrong host at home. Indeed, of the examples below, 
only 587 is blocked, so I apologize if much of the preceding email is 
hyperbolic. My personal preference for a more complete explanation and 
advanced notice of this change from my provider still stands, however.

Mike Murphy wrote:
> incoming 587 is blocked. outgoing 587 is not. It is true that I could 
> run it on another port, but which one? A few quick tries on 5 random 
> incoming ports reveals:
> 
> 26    blocked
> 1587  blocked
> 8587  blocked
> 87    blocked
> 31456 blocked
> 
> This is the thing: a lot of people here and elsewhere have written 
> things to the effect of "they cut off outbound port 25? Good!". Well, 
> they haven't just cut off outbound port 25, they have cut off almost all 
> inbound ports. Not just those known for security issues, like 139 
> (netbios), but pretty much everything but 22, 143, 80 and 993. (And I'm 
> really surprised those are still on too at this point). And there is 
> still be no official notification nor documentation of any of this from 
> them, except for the document on their website about what they term 
> "port 25 filtering".
> 
> Bellsouth Apologists want to chock this up as an issue about people 
> violating their AUP. If its a simple matter of the AUP, why can't 
> Bellsouth just throw up a document that says "sorry, we blocked pretty 
> much every inbound port for your safety. If anyone was using those, 
> tough, its a violation of the AUP", and let all of us that care decide 
> to jump ship. Even better would be a gracious "we want to keep as much 
> of your business as possible" policy of releasing anyone who wants out 
> out of their contract. Otherwise, I'd say they run the risk of losing 
> more revenue from the services that drive profits for them, like long 
> distance and "complete choice".
> 
> 
> michael d. ivey wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 03:06:49PM -0400, Mike Murphy wrote:
>>
>>> Just tried it again to make sure I wasn't crazy, and 587 is blocked as
>>> well.
>>
>>
>>
>> Incoming or outgoing?
>>
>> You can run SMTP or SMTP AUTH on an alternate port, if you had to.
>>
> 
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