[wplug] Is DSL Verizon blocking HTTP requests for clients running HTTP servers?

Rick Smith rick at rbsmith.com
Wed Aug 8 08:51:46 EDT 2001


On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 05:12:18AM -0700, Josue Batista wrote:
> Good morning everyone,
> 
> If anyone of you is a Verizon DSL customer, running an
> HTTP server, have you experience problems getting http
> requests from the Internet into your server?

I haven't tried, as my firewall blocks port 80 anyway.
A slashdot article talks of AT&T blocking for code red worm,
since infected machines go after ports in the vicinity.

http://slashdot.org/articles/01/08/07/1926212.shtml

So maybe that's the case.

-- Rick



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