On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 08:44:52AM -0400, Brian Witowski wrote: >I'm confused as to exactly what they were claiming you did wrong. It is not >uncommon for a broadband provider to prohibit running websites on >residential accounts. However they usually don't mind a mail server.
Not necessarily true, given the number of misconfigured Winblows boxes on cable modems that are frequently used/abused by spammers and crackers. The contracts generally prohibit running any kind of servers, but this is usually ignored unless there's a specific problem with a customer. Many of the cable providers finally started blocking incoming connections on port 80 in response to Nimda and Code Red. We generally set up our customers who're on cable or DSL so that their mailers send and receive mail through one of our servers using uucp over TCP, configuring their domains (or subdomains off or ours) so that we're the primary MX forwarder. Their mailers don't accept incoming SMTP, and have all outgoing mail routed through the smart-path to ours. This eliminates any problems with their provider's port blockins, and bypasses the provider's mail system entirely -- a large benefit as anybody who experienced the wonderful @home mail systems can attest. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ The is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. -- Robert Heinlein _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
