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|    Daryl Stout to Jeff Smith    |
|    NO ONE CAN CONNECT    |
|    01 Feb 16 11:08:00    |
      Jeff,                     JS>I don't know their (Comcast) current behavior. But I recall having their       JS>service       JS>some years back and found that they did indeed block certain ports.               In using a utility from portforward.com, it shows the port is open in the       router...but canyouseeme.org can't see it (the request times out). So, I'm       guessing they are blocking the port.               I can poll other systems just fine with IREX, but they can't connect to       me...and that's the rub.              Daryl              ---        * OLX 1.53 * Gone crazy, be back later, please leave message.        * PDQWK 2.53 #5                     --- GTMail 1.26         * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - wx1der.dyndns.org - GT Power 20 (1:19/33.0)    |
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