Re: Re: Connection Refused
  By: MRO to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Mar 02 2023 03:14 pm

 > Ni>> If port 23 isn't letting people through, maybe your ISP is
 > Ni>> blocking that port, I'd guess.

 >> I hope not. It's bad enough having ISPs blanket-block SMTP, if they
 >> start blocking telnet that would really suck.

 MR> i can understand why they would block it. if you have residential you
 MR> should not be running servers.

 Lots of ISPs do it for "security".  There are a lot of old wifi routers out there that just allowed telnet access via the public IP, and most people didn't change the default login.

DaiTengu

...Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

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