Some questions on Adelphia

Justin Bennett justin.bennett at dynabrade.com
Fri Nov 21 09:55:56 EST 2003


Good point about port 80, I was running a web server for a while, and it 
filled my /var partition becasue the httpd logs got so large from all 
the viruses sending requests.

Justin Bennett
Network Administrator
RHCE (Redhat Certified Linux Engineer)
Dynabrade, Inc.
8989 Sheridan Dr.
Clarence, NY 14031
 



Robert Todd wrote:

>[sighs] Rob, the reason we blocked port 80 was not only because of abuse,
>but because of the port 80 exploits (nimda, code red, etc) that affected
>many of our customers.  The SMTP and POP3 ports are NOT blocked at the CM
>level as I run an Exchange 2003 server here at home and can send and receive
>email all day long.  I just have IIS 6 running on port 8080 with my
>secondary server running on port 8081, which is the HTML interface to my
>BBS.  Besides, don't EVEN get me started plugging the advantages of
>PowerLink over xDSL :)  I do that for a living so don't really want to do
>that here from home :)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of Rob
>Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 9:01 AM
>To: nflug at nflug.org
>Subject: Re: Some questions on Adelphia
>
>I was serving a website from my Adelphia connection for about 2 years
>before they blocked port 80 on mine... I've been also running SMTP, and
>audio streaming also.... I wish verison was offered where I live because
>I would switch in a heart beat. 
>
>Rob D.
>
>  
>



More information about the nflug mailing list