On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 12:44, Brad N Bendily wrote: > > I have been wanting to run a web server from home for two years now. I > > haven't though since I have heard stories of people's accounts being > > canceled once > > cox detected a server running. Is that true? > > I haven't heard of anyone being canceled, but I imagine they would just > say "don't do that" but if they're blocking ports to stop people from > doing some stuff then I don't see that they can have any recourse if > people use a different port and do whatever they want with it. > > I like was Dennis said, just use a different port and hand out your > address as IP:PORTnum? Interesting thing about changing ports on important services, is that if you use a common port found on a OS X (arbitrary OS) install for your apache port, you can cause all kinds of problems with port scanners displaying the wrong OS. Second, if its a never used port (say 4001) a portscanner will never even find it, most port scanners do not scan EVERY port just the commons one. With nmap it is not the default to scan every port, but it can be done and it takes a long time.
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