[olug] Question about cox.....=D

Brandon Lederer brandon at tolkien-movies.com
Mon Mar 15 20:43:44 UTC 2004


Cox to cox... doesnt block port 25........ but you cannot connect from outside 
coxs network to a port 25, AFAIK.   Also you cannot connect to a port 25 
outside of cox's network.  You must use Cox's SMTP server.

On Monday 15 March 2004 12:32 pm, Sean Edwards wrote:
> The only port I have found Cox to block is 80.  I am
> testing 25 with exim and a dyndns.org domain name
> without a problem so far.  I also have 22 (ssh) and
> 114 (imap) open, without any problems.
>
> For exim to work, I had to define my cox mail server
> as a smart host, and define an MX record in the
> dyndns.org web config tool.
>
> It could be that cox (instert reason here), has
> different port blocking/allowing rules on a subnet by
> subnet basis.
>
> Does anyone want to test all 65535 TCP/IP ports with
> all  cox subnets, and report their results? Obviously
> cox does not want to do it.
>
> -=Sean Edwards=-
>
> --- Jay Swackhamer <Jay at RebootTheUser.com> wrote:
> > Cox Home service blocks 25/80 +some others.....
> >
> > > does cox block any ports?
> > > Thx
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