[lug] OT: Comcast

[Dave Treece]

I've had ssh (on an unusual port) for years, I've never had any problems.

Nick Golder wrote:
> On 2007-07-24 16:52 -0600, Calvin Dodge wrote:
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>> A news server?  No, they scan for those.
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> They scan for NNTP?  Know of any servers/services they scan for?
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>> I don't recall exactly what their user agreement specifies, but I had
>> no problem logging in via SSH (non-standard port) from elsewhere
>> during the 2 years when we had Comcast at home, and I continue to have
>> no problem logging into my computer at the office, or at my parents'
>> place in Lakewood.
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> Was the non-standard port a way to obfuscate SSH or were they blocking
> port 22?  So each user/modem is issued a publicly reachable IP
> address?  I guess for some reason I was thinking they would issue each
> user an RFC1918 address and NAT those through a block of public IPs to save
> on addresses.
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