[ale] AT&T Broadband blocking inbound http?

[Glenn C. Lasher Jr.]

Slashdot was commenting about this, too, taking the general view that
Code Red infected users should be sanctioned directly rather than
sanctioning the entire customer base.  Of course, sanctioning the entire
customer base has infinitely less administrative overhead.

Im preparing to move my http to port 81 in case Road Runner makes a
similar decision.

On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Wandered Inn wrote:

> Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> >
> > http://help.broadband.att.com/faq.jsp?content_id=792&category_id=54
> >
> > Looks like the party is over for AT&T and @Home customers...
>
> Yeah, it's unfortunate.  Iv'e just been checking out the ips I'm being
> hit by, most don't resolve which would make me think they're dynamic.
> Found some interesting 'infested' sites, one nasa.gov domain and one
> netcraft.com domain.  Many of the others that do resolve have very
> telling names, that include things such as 'dialup', 'dsl', 'slip',
> which again, to me says there's probably a lot of ignorant home users
> out there who don't have a clue their fine Windows box is running a web
> server service.
>
> >
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> >
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