Verizon Fios Blocks Inbound Port 80
Mar 17th, 2008 by MrGroove
Yes it’s true… In all my excitement I failed to test my inbound port 80 for a few days after getting my new Verizon Internet connection installed. But alas… it’s true. Verizon doesn’t like people to run home web servers so they decided to block Port 80.
After speaking with Verizon for ~5 hours and speaking with dozens of tech’s and managers (1/2 of the didn’t even know what a computer was…) I discovered that IF you want incoming Port 80 opened, you need to buy a staic IP on a Business account with for me, would have been ~ $135.00 a month. Being that I only use my home web servers for Family Galleries (lots and lots of photos and movies which I don’t want to pay hosting fees for) I really didn’t need it so… After about 15 minutes of DNS and Apache reconfiguration, my family site was once again back on the air (thanks to DNS redirection) and port 8080. The G-Parents could once again get to the Family site!!!!
All in all, VERY annoying. So, if ANYONE out there is running a site from home using DSL or Cable, you better think long and hard before cutting over to FIOS because you will need to either use a new port for your site (Search Engines don’t index anything other than port 80) or find a hosting provider to host your site.
Very Very UN-GROOVY
Tags: verizon fios, internet, isp
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I’d like to know how you did this - I’m trying to do a similar setup with Apache and FiOS. Can you provide the method you used to configure Apache and your DNS server?
Thanks!
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