Still trying to get my site up!

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC chad at shire.net
Wed Jun 29 06:13:30 GMT 2005


On Jun 28, 2005, at 11:58 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

> But with port 25 your ISP really has it backwards.  The block is  
> supposed
> to be for OUTBOUND traffic for a DESTINATION of port 25.  This  
> prevents
> your ISP from hosting spammers and viruses.  Blocks on INBOUND traffic
> with a destination of port 25 are useless.

I don't see how this is any more useless than INBOUND port 80  
blocking.  It prevents the cable subscriber from setting up a pr0n or  
warez FTP site (or a legit ftp site for that matter).

Chad


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