On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 05:48:10PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote: >Okay, so now I have cable access -- it's a beautiful thing after >dial-up purgatory -- with a static IP. Theoretically, even though it >isn't permitted, I can run server services. The installer set up one >of my Windows boxes and gave it this truly byzantine hostname but it >seems to me that I should be able to assign that static IP to a Linux >box and then update DNS through my domain registrar. > >That is, I'm proposing using my own host name and their IP address. >Can I do that?
You may want to do it as a CNAME to avoid reverse lookup mismatches. Some of the cable providers are blocking port 80 and port 25 to their customer's machines, largely in response to Code Red, and to avoid problems with customer's misconfigured MTAs being used for spam relays. I set up a friend's OpenLinux 3.1 Workstation system on AT&T (@HOME) cable a month or so ago, and found that port 25 was definately blocked here in Washington. I just route mail to and from her domain through one of our servers using uucp over TCP to get it in and out of her system. BTW: She's a 60+ psychologist, and I weaned her from Windows with this system. 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 http://www.celestial.com/ "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use." -- Galileo Galilei _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
