[H-GEN] WEB PAGES - PERMISSION REFUSED

Bruce Campbell bc at humbug.org.au
Tue Feb 26 07:38:00 EST 2002


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On 23 Feb 2002, Rick Phillips wrote:

> I recently changed my main ISP from Austar Business (now defunct) to
> Dingoblue and now I cannot view my private web page on a Windows 2000
[snip]
> The DNS2go support page suggests that some ISP's use port blocking
> because of Code Red and others and the reversal test seems to suggest
> that this is correct.
[snip]
> Any ideas?

Apart from 'Contact your ISP to see why they're enforcing the usual terms
and conditions concerning the running of private servers on home links',
nope.  (if you've got a dynamic IP address, you most probably don't have a
business link, and most ISPs prohibit & block the running of private
servers on such services )

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Bruce.

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