how to tell if my ISP is blocking email & web ports

[Dinesh Nair]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, fbsd_user wrote:
> So I need a way to test if the ports are blocked or not using an
> friends PC and my current  IP address.
>
> What do you recommend?

why not just enable sendmail, apache and pop3 on your home box and telnet
to ports 25, 80 and 110 respectively from your friend's pc to see if it
works ?

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