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FiOS stops blocking port 80

It appears that FiOS has stopped blocking port 80. I discovered this last night when I accidentally pasted a URL for http://beta.freebsddiary.org/ into an IRC channel. That website used to be publicly available, until Dec 2007 when I moved to Philadelphia and started with FiOS. Sometime after that, things started work. Looking back in my logs, the change occurred on 16 April 2009.

Nov 26 2008

Avoiding dynamic IP address woes with a VPN

8 Comments / DNS, Networks, Open Source, OpenVPN / By Dan Langille / November 26, 2008

I’m sick of dealing with dynamic IP issues. My broadband connection at home has a dynamic IP address. I can always find out what my home IP address is. I’m using dns/noip to manage a hostname which points to home. I can always ssh home via the hostname. The problems arise when I try to restrict access to services provided at home or access to services on external servers. For example, the web

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