Blocking ports is a nuisance, but in a Microsoft world... They have no choice. Back when they were just "@home" and first getting started we used to take over a friend's LAN and just wear his printer out whenever he was late for work. He couldn't do anything about it, because Win98 was wide open and so was @home. NMAP will often give misleading results when it is used externally. There are a variety of reasons why listed at insecure.org. Map to a different port above the MS lot. I doubt Cox blocks those.
--- Boyd Davezac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brad, > I had the same problem last week, and I spent 3 hours with cox > cycling my > modem and doing all kinds of useless c**p. All COX is interested > in is > whether or not you can browse the internet. I talked to 3 > different guys > and they all said they didn't know why I couldn't telnet / ssh / > ftp to my > machine from a remote location. But they said COX doesn't support > that so > they weren't going to help me with it. I think I might move to a > business > account. For now though, I am running ssh on an open port so I can > still > get to it remotely. BUT, here is how you tell that COX is blocking > your > stuff. "nmap -P0 ip-address" this will show you a machine with > your > address but with ports open and filtered that you probably don't > have open > or filtered on your machine. I had a friend of mine from work nmap > my > computer and he said it was probably one of COX's routers > filtering. By the > way you have to nmap it from a computer not on the cox network or > it will > show you the correct info instead of what I said earlier. Whether > COX is > admitting it or not, they are filtering a lot of regular ports. > Once you > nmap you will see what I am talking about. > > Hope this helps, > > Boyd > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brad Bendily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 9:53 AM > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Cox.Net & SSH > > > > > > To divert the conversation back to the original subject. > > I'm not able to ssh or ftp to my home, which is cox.net, from > > SLU at least. Haven't tried it from any where else. But I was > > able to move my ssh service to another port and I can connect > with > > no problems. Same goes for FTP. > > > > I "chatted" with a Cox tech support rep last night and he gave me > a > > list of ports they block and 22 and 21 were not in the list. But > I > > told him I couldn't access services on those ports. He was going > to > > let someone in the BR TOC know about it. Perhaps someone made a > > configuration change that broke port 22 and 21. > > > > I'm also still having the intermittent connectivity problems. > > So they're suppose to look into that too. In the mean time I'll > > be testing my cabling to rule out that as a problem. > > > > -- > > Brad Bendily - CNA > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net ===== Warmest Regards, Doug Riddle http://www.dougriddle.com ## Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the Peoples' Liberty Teeth." - George Washington ## __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com
