[outages] Comcast blocking ftp?

[Michael Acosta]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Wallace Keith
<kwallace at pcconnection.com> wrote:
> There is an ongoing discussion in the citizens weather observer community
> that ftp might be being blocked by Comcast? Can anyone confirm this is
> really the case? Allegedly  started at 6:30am today.  Sorry I cannot provide
> technical examples. I do not have Comcast at my current location.

I'm on Comcast residential right now, and I can get to external FTP
services just fine. Do you have some specifics I could try?