Bryan Whitehead wrote:
>> There will be a significant number of Mandrake installations on
>> standalone machines that use residential cable modems for internet
>> connection. The cable vendors are adamant that servers are not
>> permitted and conduct regular port scans to enforce that. By your
>> contract, if discovered, you risk summary disconnection. The present
>> 'workstation' definition is needed to support these installations. I
>> suspect the auth port must be left open, and is not checked by the
>> cable service vendor, otherwise no IRC chat, etc.
Installation question: ``Is your ISP a fascist? [ Yes ] [ No ]''
> I don't know how they do it where you are.. But the CableCo. here just
> firewalls those ports... you can have ftpd running all day but the ISP has
> it firwalled off.
> It's much more simpler than doing a stupid port scan of all your
> customers...
Depends where you do the firewall. Can't have customers raping each others'
servers now, can we?
You can always run your service on a non-standard port.
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