forum open timeout

[Forum User]

On Tuesday, 3 February 2026 at 21:42:13 UTC, user1234 wrote:
> I know another programming language forum that has experienced 
> serious slowdowns due to Alphabet scraping bots for IA engines. 
> But here the admin had declared that the problem might be due 
> to their company backup system.

Just experienced about 20 min outage. No TCP connect to port 
80/443.
Interestingly nmap says:

PORT     STATE    SERVICE
21/tcp   open     ftp
22/tcp   open     ssh
25/tcp   open     smtp
53/tcp   open     domain
80/tcp   filtered http
111/tcp  filtered rpcbind
113/tcp  open     auth
139/tcp  filtered netbios-ssn
443/tcp  filtered https
1023/tcp filtered netvenuechat
1024/tcp filtered kdm
2049/tcp filtered nfs
2222/tcp open     unknown
6667/tcp open     irc
8080/tcp open     http-proxy
9103/tcp filtered jetdirect
9503/tcp open     unknown

I could successfully connect to all the open TCP ports. I did not
perceive any delays.