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Cox-blocked covid-19: day 40 | US: GA | info | act
For the life of me, I could not figure out why my server could not successfully retrieve an SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt. I had done it before. My proxy server seemed to be working. I even posted to the LE help forum, and some dude told me that my port 80 was down. What? It had been working fine...then I remembered something...
A quick search, and I confirmed it: Cox blocks port 80 on residential service. Of course they do. Of course their reasons are bull💩; they just want to charge you more for a “business” account when it would take some sysadmin three seconds at a terminal to open the firewall. I know: I should call them before I complain too much, but I can already predict that call would not go well. This is so frustrating and negates the only reason I bought my third Raspberry Pi for a proxy server.
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