OK... After 3 weeks of inability to upload through my FTP program, my (ISP) Charter Communication has confirmed that they indeed have blocked port 21 from residential customers. To Whomever has the power of Rootsweb... Please inform us Charter customers what port we should input into our FTP programs so that we may upload to Rootsweb. Thank you. I look forward to a reply. Since I am on Digest mode, please e-mail me directly or it may be several days before I hear back. Janelle Martin [email protected] IAGenWeb County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~iahamilt

Janelle- I've experienced problems with Charter blocking certain ports, and they've "explained" that it is due to inordinate amounts of spam, or porn coming from them. Take that with a big block of salt. It's my understanding that you can ask them to "unblock" certain URLs if requested. They sent me a list of "blocked ports", which appear below. Port 80 is a very common port, used by zillions, so it seems to me that they block sites on those ports, rather than entire emanations. You might go directly to them with your request. Michael Gt aBlocked Ports, As of 05 135 137 138 139 445 136 80 21 25 110 119 143 1080 8080 445 Port # Type Keyword Description 135 TCP epmap DCE endpoint resolution W32.Blaster.Worm, W32/Lovsan.worm 137 TCP epmap DCE endpoint resolution W32.Blaster.Worm, W32/Lovsan.worm 138 TCP netbios-dgm NETBIOS Datagram Service Chode 139 UDP netbios-ssn NETBIOS Session Service 445 TCP creativepartnr CreativePartnr Fatal Connections 136 UDP profile PROFILE Naming System 80 TCP www-http World Wide Web HTTP 711 trojan (Seven Eleven), AckCmd, Back End, Back Orifice 2000 Plug-Ins, Cafeini, CGI Backdoor, Code Red, Executor, God Message, God Message 4 Creator, Hooker, IISworm, MTX, NCX, Nimda, Noob, Ramen, Reverse WWW Tunnel Backdoor, RingZero, RTB 666, Seeker, WAN Remote, Web Server CT, WebDownloader 21 UDP ftp File Transfer [Control] 25 UDP smtp Simple Mail Transfer 110 UDP pop3 Post Office Protocol - Version 3 119 UDP nntp Network News Transfer Protocol 143 UDP imap Internet Message Access Protocol 1080 UDP socks Socks 445 UDP microsoft-ds Microsoft-DS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janelle Martin" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:16 PM Subject: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] port 21 blocked for residential by ISP (CharterComm) OK... After 3 weeks of inability to upload through my FTP program, my (ISP) Charter Communication has confirmed that they indeed have blocked port 21 from residential customers. To Whomever has the power of Rootsweb... Please inform us Charter customers what port we should input into our FTP programs so that we may upload to Rootsweb. Thank you. I look forward to a reply. Since I am on Digest mode, please e-mail me directly or it may be several days before I hear back. Janelle Martin [email protected] IAGenWeb County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~iahamilt ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message