Comcast blocks port 25 incoming, yet again

[Bill McGonigle]

On May 15, 2008, at 13:04, Coleman Kane wrote:

> So, is it just me, or are they specifically picking on web-servers
> here? The policy is quite absurd, in my mind. It is almost like  
> they are
> choosing to pick on home-web-servers because of some inbred prejudice.

I suspect it's a policy that pre-dates P2P where web serving was  
likely to cost them the most in peering costs.  Like criminal  
puppetry in NH, obsolete policies often linger in corporations unless  
there's a cost advantage to getting rid of them.

In a dial-up world, having a web server account somewhere makes  
pretty good sense.  Some of our fellow GNHLUG members have glass to  
the garage with 15 meg up, and now it doesn't, and one could argue  
that community benefit is forfeit due to this policy, which is  
against the idea of their granted monopoly.  I don't know what the  
killer application is when everybody has FTTP and 2-way  
communication, but it's hard to find out too.

So, the moral of the story is apparently to develop the spec for HTTP  
over Bittorrent.

-Bill

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