[lug] OT: Comcast

[Nick Golder]

On 2007-07-24 16:52 -0600, Calvin Dodge wrote:
> A news server?  No, they scan for those.

They scan for NNTP?  Know of any servers/services they scan for?

> 
> 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.
> 

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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Nick Golder