On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Keegan Holley <no.s...@comcast.net> wrote: > More politely stated, it’s not the responsibility of the operator to decide what belongs on the network and what doesn’t. Users can run any services that’s not illegal or even reuse ports for other applications. That being said commonly exploited ports (TCP 25 for example) are often blocked. This is usually done to block or protect an application though not to single out a particular port number.
Don't most residential ISPs already block port 25 outbound? http://www.postcastserver.com/help/Port_25_Blocking.aspx Blocking chargen at the edge doesn't seem to be outside of the realm of possibilities.
