If they blocked ssh, it was inadvertant and lower level tech support at cox 1) probably wouldn't be aware of it and 2) wouldn't understand the issue anyway.
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 07:42:09AM -0500, Brad Bendily wrote: > Well I just double checked. NOW they are not blocking port 22. But they > are blocking port 21. I've moved both services to different ports above > 1024. I think I'll just keep them there. I was, however, told the same > thing that port 22 and 21 were not blocked. But that's BS. > Last week they were indeed blocking port 22. > > I can live with SSH on a different port, but we could have been warned. > They have our email addresses. > > -- > Brad Bendily - CNA > > > On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Scott Harney wrote: > > > Cox is not filtering 22. According to their Baton Rouge Network Engineer > > they won't filter 22. However, they will filter other well-known > > services (ie. < 1024) at their discretion. I know of others > > using 22 without a problem. you may be having connectivity issues. > > > > Here's an nmap -P0 of you. 22 is not blocked. The fact that I can't > > ping you tells me that you're running a firewall. And you're probably > > running tcp wrappers as well. You might wanna double check your > > own logs. When cox was blocking 80 and 25 here in New Orleans, they > > didn't show up in an external nmap scan at all. That's not to > > say they might not have changed their filtering method. > > (Your IP is in the headers of your email. I'm not being nefarious) > > Netra-01:~$ nmap -P0 68.11.236.69 > > > > Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA28 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) > > Interesting ports on ip68-11-236-69.br.no.cox.net (68.11.236.69): > > (The 1539 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) > > Port State Service > > 21/tcp filtered ftp > > 22/tcp open ssh > > 25/tcp filtered smtp > > 80/tcp filtered http > > 113/tcp open auth > > 1080/tcp filtered socks > > 3128/tcp filtered squid-http > > 6000/tcp open X11 > > 8080/tcp filtered http-proxy > > > > Did you turn off your firewall and tcp wrappers while you were trying > > to get this stuff to work? > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 01:04:25AM -0500, Boyd Davezac 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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- Scott Harney<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
