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Date:      Sat, 3 Nov 2001 01:22:12 -0600
From:      "Adam Wood" <woodfucius@yahoo.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Port Scan Request 2
Message-ID:  <001901c16438$41ef6a00$0100a8c0@wood>
In-Reply-To: <010d01c16433$4e165280$0200a8c0@supportjlgjov8>

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>My ISP does not block port 80;)  I had an NT server running with apache
>before;)

Was this before the Code Red, Code Red II, and Nimda outbreaks a little
while back?  That's what caused several major ISPs like @Home started
blocking access to port 80, to limit the spread of those worms.

Newsgroup discussion about AT&T @Home blocking port 80:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&th=12e988d88474dbb1&seekm=tngj5691
g42b1d%40corp.supernews.com&frame=off

Discussion about Optimum Online's blocking of port 80 access:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&th=f1a9093f77257407&rnum=1

From the above thread:
"OOL blocked port 80, as did many other providers, because of the morons
on their service running micro$oft IIS compromised by the Code Red worm.


Why not run your server on one of the designated HTTP alternate ports?
8008 or 8080"

From Cablevision's Customer Service Internet Service Policy (Cablevision
is the parent of Optimum Online):
http://www.cablevision.com/customer/service/i_policies.html

"Subscriber may not run a server in connection with the optimum online
service, nor may subscriber provide network services to others via the
optimum online service 
Examples of prohibited uses include, but are not limited to, running
servers for mail, http, ftp, irc and dhcp and multi-user interactive
forums."

From what I can tell your machine is connected to the net via a cable
modem through Optimum Online, which does not allow servers to be run and
has blocked port 80 access to thwart Code Red, etc.  That coupled with
nmap not getting any response on ports 80, 137-139, and 445, (all MS
file sharing ports except 80) would lead me to believe that your ISP has
put the kibosh on port 80 access.  Sorry dude.


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