Terry provides wise advice. Heed it. Do you have other ISP choices? Eatel is great, and places no restrictions on me.
jh > They do not have to scan you. They can easily watch for inbound TCP > packets with the SYN flag set. These are connection requests. It they > watch for corresponding outbound responses from the target IP address to > the original sender IP address, they will know that you're running a > server. Now, whether they watch or not is a whole 'nother issue. Maybe > they'll just assume its another Windows security bug. > > So, the real question is, are you going to do it? If you do, you _can_ get > caught, and you take your medicine whether it's disconnection or something > more dramatic (can anyone say "theft of cable service"?). Just what are > you willing to risk? > > At 09:27 PM 10/14/2002 -0400, you wrote: > >(Not really a linux question, but any way...) > > > >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. Is it true that they can detect if I am > >using software like this, and will they cancil my account if they detect > >me running that software? Do they just scan the ports that are blocked, or > >do they scan all ports? What if I use a different port besides port 80? > > > >Thanks for any help, > > > >Steven > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://host19.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > ~~ John Hebert
