Telocity/DirecTV DSL expressly ALLOWS servers and gives you a fixed IP.

You may want to consider their service.

Jim 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cleve Allison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 9:52 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Re: [brlug-general] Cox and No-IP (Dynamic DNS software)
> 
> 
> John, 
> Does Eatel resell DSL or Cable service?
> I would love to set up a sendmail and apache webserver.  Not for
> anything big, mostly just to learn with.  Currently I am with 
> Cox Cable
> and have been quite pleased with the service I get but I know 
> that they
> don't want us running servers.
> I also heard that Eatel can supply you with your local 
> telephone service
> at extremely good rates....although I have not yet called 
> them to check
> it out myself.
> Cleve
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 21:32, John Hebert wrote:
> > 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
> > > 
> > > 
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