[kwlug-disc] Mysterious filtered ports on a server

[CrankyOldBugger]

Why would Rogers shut you down for IRC?  They have something against people
chatting with each other?

On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 at 14:14 Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

>
> The firewall we have on site blocks all outgoing traffic to the IRC
> ports, because some time ago Rogers was shutting us down for having
> IRC in our network. I do not think that the packets were getting as
> far as the server in question, so the server never generated reply
> packets.
>
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 11:29:13AM -0400, bob+kwlug at softscape.ca wrote:
> > Paul,
> >
> > Just so I have this clear in my head, was the reason that those ports
> came up on your nmap scan because you were blocking the reply packets of
> "nothing here" at the border?
> >
> > (the other)Bob.
> >
> >
>
>
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