I, for one, and thankful that they're blocking those ports. The 
mitigating effects that the blocked ports have on the spread of viruses 
and spam far outweigh the benefits that a few hobbyists gain from 
running their own servers. Sorry if this upsets the do-it-yourselfers, 
but you're buying a managed home service, not an uptime-guaranteed 
service anyway. If you want to self-host, there are plenty of colocation 
businesses around, or you can spring for a business-class connection. Or 
you can run a non-standard port for your personal site.

-Tim


Tim Sullivan wrote:

>Yep that's what I wanted to know. I guess eatel is getting into the port
>blocking business. At least they haven't blocked port 21 to run an ftp
>server.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
>Of jr_G-man
>Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 12:52 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [brlug-general] EATel DSL
>
>http://www.eatel.com/universal.cfm?pageid=652
>
>Is this what you are looking for?
>
>  
>
>>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>Message: 1
>>Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 08:38:52 -0500
>>From: "Tim Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: [brlug-general] EATel DSL
>>To: <[email protected]>
>>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>
>>Does anyone know if EATEL has blocked ports on its DSL/Fiberedge service?
>>
>>Tim Sullivan
>>-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was 
>>scrubbed...
>>URL: 
>>/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20050708/d9e2de4e/attachment-0
>>001.htm
>>
>>------------------------------
>>
>> 
>>
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>
>_______________________________________________
>General mailing list
>[email protected]
>http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>General mailing list
>[email protected]
>http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
>  
>

Reply via email to