> As you may or may not know, I am trying to set up a web server. I am on Cox > residential interner service, and have read that they don't allow servers to > be run on their residential service. I tried contacting Cox about this issue, > but all they would say is that "cox does not allow servers." After some > research, I found that it will cost an extra $10 for a slow 128k business > connection so I could run a server. How ever, I know someone who runs a > server using the residential service using No-IP Dynamic DNS software on port > 8080.
Me too, and this person has no problems so far. >Is it true that they can detect if I am using software like this, Sure they can, with any decent port scanner, or just sniffing the traffic going to your IP. and > will they cancil my account if they detect me running that software? I doubt it. Do they > just scan the ports that are blocked, or do they scan all ports? Don't know. What if I > use a different port besides port 80? Probably all you need to do. Something else you could try is to detect port scans coming from Cox and drop those packets. In other words, stealth your machine to Cox's snoops. This won't stop the determined sysadmin, but I imagine they won't get determined if the amount of traffic is small. jh ~~ John Hebert
