Re: Has anyone asked Comcast to stop blocking inbound ports?

["Matthew Gillen" <user=50@nabble.blu.org>]

 Brendan Kidwell wrote: 
> I have a question that's tangental to the "DSL on the South Shore?" thread. 
> 
> I'm very mad right now. I have Comcast at home (Belmont, MA) and I just 
> spent half an hour trying to setup a tunnel from home to my office computer 
> I'm on at the moment, so my brother at his house could connect his vncserver 
> to my listening vncviewer. 
> 
> Turns out that Comcast is blocking port 5500... and 5501... and EVERY port I 
> tried except for SSH and HTTPS! I don't know when they made this change, and 
> I never noticed because I only ever used SSH and HTTPS for inbound 
> connections most of the time, blocking all others at my personal firewall. 
> (I know what I'm doing and I can prove several different ways that they're 
> blocking all the ports I tried.)