Jeroen van Aart wrote: > <clip> >> Obviously my above doesn't apply to someone paying for commercial >> service and hosting their own servers... but it would also be >> > > Though my static IP is from a "consumer level" internet connection I do > expect that if I pay extra for a static IP I should be able to use it > what it's meant for. i.e. running certain services such as email and > websites, of course with "consumer level" bandwidth usage. > >
I think you'll find that most/many ISPs specify in the T&C that running servers of any kind is prohibited on consumer level services. I'd go farther and say that while many don't bother to enforce that fact, many have started blocking commonly used ports so as to make the point moot. If you can't get data to / from your server you can't run it. I ran into that about 3 years back with was at that time Bellsouth, now AT&T. While they had blocked outbound smtp(25) for a long time, running a server was no big deal as long as you sent your outbound mail using their servers as a forwarder. When they started block inbound smtp it made it impossible to run a mail server of any kind without some DNS funkiness. No notice, even when I contacted tech support they would actually admit they were doing it, but a little checking made it quite obvious they had done so across the board, not just for my connection. Melvin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
