I hosted my web page and email server on a Telus home dsl line for years and I'm doing the same thing on Shaw right now. I'm using both port 80 and port 25 and I have had no problems. Port scanning my machine from the outside shows that Shaw is not filtering ports.
>> >> >>What seems to be the problem is that I can't connect to the services >> using the public IP. >>Does anyone know if Shaw is blocking certain requests preventing >> running your own DNS, http services? >> >> > I think after Code Red hit, Shaw started blocking access to some > low-numbered ports. I'm also running a web server, and I couldn't access > it until I moved it's port above 1024. > > For testing, I use http://www.pcflank.com 's online port scanner. You > > can give it a list of ports to scan, which is really handy for testing > things like this. > > HJ Hornbeck
