[Xitami] Some help please....or BAD VERIZON! BAD!

[Gary Rumble]

I had the opposite experience.  When I started with Verizon, all inbound 
traffic was blocked.  Somewhere down the line, without any warning, all 
inbound traffic was enabled.  I had no idea that had happened until I 
was playing around with Zone Alarm one day.  It started pumping out 
warnings on ports all over the place.  I very quickly checked and upped 
my security settings to make sure I was covered.

Since they were cavalier about letting me know that they had exposed me, 
I felt little guilt about setting up a web server on my machine.  As my 
DSL modem hasn't lost power (it's on a UPS) my IP hasn't changed in 
close to 6 months now.

But none of this is germain to the question.  It does sound like the ISP 
is blocking the inbound connections on port 21.

Michael diLorenzo wrote:
> I have found Verizon DSL to be notorious for blocking commonly used 
> ports,  and then charging an arm and a leg more per month to flip a 
> switch and  open them for you.
> 
> Good luck.
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> On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:07:59 -0300, Jim Noseworthy  
> <jim.noseworthy at rogers.com> wrote:
> 
>> Well Folks:
>>
>> I guess I am having a problem with my network provider.   When I 
>> connect  with a wireless connection to another provider, I am able to 
>> access the  FTP server with no problem.  When, however, I use the 
>> standard ADSL  connection, it doesn't work.
>>
>> Thanks for all the help gang.
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