[ale] blocked domains

[Adrin]

Not always true that they block coputers.  They let you use it for a few
weeks and then cut you off.  

More interesting to me is why they would block a outside hosting domain?
I have not had problems with Bellsouth, but I could not get speakeasy or
speedfactory DSL.  I really don't see how blocking ports help.  And I
say this because they block the ports at the border not on the internal
network from what I can tell.  And this seems to be same for comcast.
So you can spam/scan or be spammed/scanned for your fellow subscribers
on the same WAN subnet. 



On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 02:16 -0500, Chuck Payne wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Are you on Bellsouth? Because they do block any computer running this 
> ports 21, 25, 80 and will block it. I had that problem was told by 
> Bellsouth get business line to run those.
> 
> I had to move to Speed Factory.
> 
> Payne
> 
> Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> > On Tue 2007-11-27 13:39:25 -0500, Bob Toxen wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> If I cannot reach a site, I always run multiple traceroute commands
> >> from different systems (preferably in widely separate geographic
> >> locations).  If you had done that, it would have been obvous that
> >> HellSouth had been blocking your system.
> >>     
> >
> > Bob, i'm pretty sure that the problem referenced was
> > rejected/blackholed SMTP traffic (selected via some sort of IP-based
> > blacklist), not a full IP-level packet rejection.  If was just SMTP, a
> > traceroute probably wouldn't have helped much in the diagnosis.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >          --dkg
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