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		chrismeller on Oct 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: Spectrum is blocking TCP/UDP 5060 at my h... I’ve come to treat residential ISPs as basically a transit for HTTP. As someone else in the thread pointed out that’s all that 99.99% of customers care about, and unfortunately you’re talking about a lowest common denominator here.

im3w1l on Oct 31, 2022 [–]

And this is (one of the reasons) why you should design modern protocols to use https as transport layer.

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