[ale] DSL woes

[adrin at bellsouth.net (adrin)]

AT&T is playing with a lot of stuff as of late. Putting us on spam filled Yahoo mail severs is just one.  Really sucks when the only other option is concast (Actually saw that on a van once and wasn't able to get a picture.)  


--- On Wed, 3/31/10, krwatson at cc.gatech.edu <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:

> From: krwatson at cc.gatech.edu <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu>
> Subject: Re: [ale] DSL woes
> To: ale at ale.org
> Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010, 8:55 AM
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org
> [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]
> On Behalf Of Jim
> > Lynch
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:34
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> > Subject: [ale] DSL woes
> > 
> > I'm having trouble with BS? sorry ATT DSL.?
> (I know, what's new).? Here
> > a few months back one of my apps developed a hearing
> problem.? It was
> > hung from a non standard port and for some reason I
> could not get to
> > that port from the WAN.? I determined the
> firewall in the router is
> > still set up right.? Kinda strange, the non
> standard ports that I have
> > opened all of the time still work however the ones I
> bring up and down
> > don't.? It's like they did a port scan and closed
> all my unused ports
> > for me.
> > 
> > Anyway they won't talk with me about the problem
> unless I'm running
> > Windows. So I'm going to disconnect everything from
> the modem except a
> > switch and a Win XP box and run something listening to
> a blocked port so
> > I can prove to them it isn't working.? I don't
> have much hope they will
> > do anything about it but I'm going to try.? Can
> someone suggest an
> > application that listens on a non standard port or
> something that lets
> > you config the port on Win XP?? Preferably a free
> one.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jim.
> > 
> 
> 
> Jim,
> 
> As several have mentioned you can use netcat.
> 
> Netcat
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcat
> 
> At the bottom of the page is a link to a Windows native
> version so you don't have to mess with Cygwin.
> 
> Microsoft Windows version of netcat
> http://www.securityfocus.com/tools/139
> 
> 
> Another option is to use PortTest (public domain).
> http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~krwatson/files/porttest_v1.00.zip
> 
> Pros: The person on the other end (in this case AT&T)
> only needs a browser.
> Cons: Only tests TCP (not UDP).
> 
> At one time I had a similar problem so I put together
> PortTest which was based on another utility I had already
> written. I needed to be able to walk a non-technical user
> through the process and most people already know how to use
> a browser (as opposed to telnet), although now that I think
> about it I could probably get a browser and netcat to do the
> same thing. Of course that would still only do TCP.
> 
> Have fun storming the castle,
> Keith
> 
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