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ALL incoming ports now BLOCKED on Comcast Charles Newman 09-07-2006
Posted by DLR on September 7, 2006, 2:17 pm
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Patrick Klos wrote:
>>
>>> Comcast is now blocking ALL incoming traffic into
>>> your PC, so anything even thinking of running a server of any kind
>>> had better forget it. If you were running any kind of online radio
>>> station, as I was, a good alternative that works, and starting at a
>>> reasonable price is Live 365, at http://www.live365.com. If you are a
>>> Comcast subscriber attempting to run your own streaming audio and
>>> want an alternative, Live365 is the way to go. Packages that include
>>> the ability to do live streaming from your computer start at $20
>>> monthly. I have been trying to start my own online talk show and
>>> discovered that Comcast is now blocking all incoming traffic to
>>> customer computers. I did that by connecting back to my setup by
>>> using an open proxy server, and disovered that all incoming traffic
>>> is now blocked.
>> Then how is it that I still see hundreds of probes per day for ports
>> like 1026, 1027, 1028, not to mention the occasional probe for FTP, HTTP
>> and SSH ports?
>
> Maybe they're being blocked at Comcast's main connection(s) to the Internet
> and not within the Comcast cloud itself? In that case, the probes would
> be coming from other Comcast connection machines?? Just a possibility.
>
I just tried and was able to connect to my mother-in-law's router web
interface via 8080. I'm on a Bellsouth wholesaled DSL backbone in NC
connecting to her in MD.


Posted by Warren on September 7, 2006, 12:07 pm
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Charles Newman wrote:
> Comcast is now blocking ALL incoming traffic into
> your PC,

If that were true, you wouldn't be able to do anything. You wouldn't be
able to browse. You wouldn't be able to get any e-mail. You wouldn't be
able to read newsgroups. You couldn't do anything with your connection if
all incoming traffic was blocked.

What's the point of an Internet connection that allows no incoming
traffic?

--
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Posted by Oren on September 7, 2006, 1:37 pm
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On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 05:04:36 -0700, "Charles Newman"

>X-No-Archive: Yes

Why not?

>Comcast is now blocking all incoming traffic
>to customer computers.

The call center would be over-whelmed....
--
Oren

"Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens
constantly."

Posted by Eric on September 9, 2006, 9:54 am
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Charles Newman wrote:
> X-No-Archive: Yes
>
> Comcast is now blocking ALL incoming traffic into
> your PC, so anything even thinking of running a server
> of any kind had better forget it. If you were running
> any kind of online radio station, as I was, a good
> alternative that works, and starting at a reasonable
> price is Live 365, at http://www.live365.com.
> If you are a Comcast subscriber attempting to run
> your own streaming audio and want an alternative,
> Live365 is the way to go. Packages that include
> the ability to do live streaming from your computer
> start at $20 monthly. I have been trying to start
> my own online talk show and discovered that
> Comcast is now blocking all incoming traffic
> to customer computers. I did that by
> connecting back to my setup by using an
> open proxy server, and disovered that
> all incoming traffic is now blocked.

If this isn't spam for live365.com, maybe they detected you were
streamming a radio station and started blocking all the ports to YOUR
computer. Just a thought...


Posted by f/fgeorge on September 10, 2006, 11:03 am
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>Charles Newman wrote:
>> X-No-Archive: Yes
>>
>> Comcast is now blocking ALL incoming traffic into
>> your PC, so anything even thinking of running a server
>> of any kind had better forget it. If you were running
>> any kind of online radio station, as I was, a good
>> alternative that works, and starting at a reasonable
>> price is Live 365, at http://www.live365.com.
>> If you are a Comcast subscriber attempting to run
>> your own streaming audio and want an alternative,
>> Live365 is the way to go. Packages that include
>> the ability to do live streaming from your computer
>> start at $20 monthly. I have been trying to start
>> my own online talk show and discovered that
>> Comcast is now blocking all incoming traffic
>> to customer computers. I did that by
>> connecting back to my setup by using an
>> open proxy server, and disovered that
>> all incoming traffic is now blocked.
>
>If this isn't spam for live365.com, maybe they detected you were
>streamming a radio station and started blocking all the ports to YOUR
>computer. Just a thought...
I believe this is spam, as you first thought. I have Comcast and my
ports are not blocked, just filtered by me.


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