Subj : ISP blocks port 80
To   : Time Warrior
From : Deuce
Date : Wed Sep 21 2005 02:18 am

  Re: ISP blocks port 80
  By: Time Warrior to Deuce on Wed Sep 21 2005 01:00:00

 >  > To the best of my knoledge, port 7820 does not hold any usefull purpose, 
 >  > should be disallowed.  You open usefull ports.  By closing "bad" ports, y
 >  > always a step behind the latest exploits.  By closing all non-usefull one
 >  > you're a step ahead.
 > 
 > How so? It serves the purpose of being able to run more than one web server.
 > What about people who's web based router configs are on 8080? Or people who'
 > isp's BLOCK 80 and 8080 because they know that 8080 is a universal alternate
 > port?
 > 
 > I think 7820, or any other choice is a good choice when you can't avoid usin
 > an alternate port. It's better than not running it at all.

Oh yes, running the web server on port 7820 is better than not running one at
all.  But from the POV of someone securing a network, allowing outging
connections to port 7820 does not inherently allow web servers.  Since you
don't have a service you need on port 7820, you don't allow it.

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