{"id":12195,"date":"2010-04-25T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-25T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T14:40:00","slug":"is-clears-up-port-25-adsl-blocking-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/12195-is-clears-up-port-25-adsl-blocking-concerns.html","title":{"rendered":"IS clears up port 25 ADSL blocking concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rumors recently started surfacing online that <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?226430-Internet-Solutions\">Internet Solutions<\/a> (IS) was planning to block port 25 on its ADSL network, forcing subscribers to use a custom port for their email needs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This raised concerns among both consumers and systems administrators, but IS was quick to debunk these rumors and clarified exactly what was happening.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company port 25 will definitely not be blocked globally on its network.&nbsp; The company did however block port 25 access on DSL accounts which have been reported for spam and have already had an IP blacklisting.<\/p>\n<p>IS says that only clients who have sent spam are impacted by this intervention, adding that this policy has been in place for over a year already.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?228511-Internet-Solutions-clears-up-port-25-ADSL-blocking-concerns\"><strong>IS and port 25 blocking<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; comments and views<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/12139-boosts---hotspot-coverage.html\"><strong>IS boosts Wi-Fi hotspot coverage<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/blogs\/2009\/08\/14\/internet-solutions-the-peeping-tom-and-local-artists-rejoyce-you-made-the-pirate-list\/\"><strong>Internet Solutions the peeping Tom and local artists rejoyce, you made the pirate list!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Solutions says it has no plans to block port 25 on its network \u2013 it is merely used in a few cases to stop spam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adsl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}