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Please, everyone, learn to quote. We don't need entire messages resent (headers and foooters intact) back to the list. On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 02:44, roan wrote: > I just read something at > AT&Ts website about them filtering on port 80 for security reasons. > There doing this (they say) because of virus threats and other security > breaches. A few providers have started doing this, presumably for the same reason. > They say that the only people that will be affected are > people running web servers on there residential network. Do you think > that this might be the culprit. Any enlightenment will be appreciated. Provided they have it set up correctly, they are absolutely right. They should only be blocking inbound connection requests destined for port 80 on one of the residential machines. As your requests should not be coming from port 80, the responses to your browser requests should not be attempting to connect to you on port 80. Jamin W. Collins _______________________________________________ Masq maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Admin requests can be handled at http://www.indyramp.com/masq-list/ -- THIS INCLUDES UNSUBSCRIBING! or email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE read the HOWTO and search the archives before posting. You can start your search at http://www.indyramp.com/masq/ Please keep general linux/unix/pc/internet questions off the list.
