In reply to a post by keybaud:

The Orange support desk claim that they don't block any ports, which is a half truth, as they block port 25 to any location except their own smtp server.

Never believe anything told you by telephone support

Orange publish it quite clearly here: http://help.orange.co.uk/orangeuk/com.instranet.Inst...

In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

In reply to a post by keybaud:

The Orange support desk claim that they don't block any ports, which is a half truth, as they block port 25 to any location except their own smtp server.

Never believe anything told you by telephone support

Orange publish it quite clearly here: http://help.orange.co.uk/orangeuk/com.instranet.Inst...

Or from their main website help page: http://help.orange.co.uk/orangeuk/support/personal/6...

"Network Management - what gets blocked?
In a word, nothing!

As you can see on the how much can I download? page, we don't block you from accessing anything online based on your usage, even if you�re using our service heavily.

Actually, the only thing that we have in place that comes even close to us blocking your access is an email setting that we have which protects you against unsolicited emails, also known as spam."

I fail to see how stopping me from accessing a legitimate outgoing service protects me from an incoming threat.

How did you find that document, as I can't find it independently of your link? It may clearly be published, but it is in no way published clearly.

In reply to a post by keybaud:

I fail to see how stopping me from accessing a legitimate outgoing service protects me from an incoming threat.

No, but it protects the rest of the world from your, and others like you, outgoing attack of swamping the Net with spam.

Go up to the page from whence you came to "Network Management - what gets blocked?" and look instead at "the detailed stuff". There you can see that Orange are members of "Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG) best practice guidelines on traffic management transparency". From there click on " BSG Key Facts Indicator". Voila!

Methinks you doth protest too much about a common Internet security practice!

Edited by XRaySpeX (Mon 05-Sep-11 22:12:57)