On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Eric Myers wrote:
I'm seriously thinking of switching from Time-Warner to Verizon Fios,
but one concern is that I currently run my own e-mail server at home,
and I want to continue to do so. Anybody else using Verizon?
Had any problems?
-Eric
I know this thread has long died out, but I wanted to report the final
result, in case it helps anybody else make a decision.
My wife works in the computer center at Vassar, and one of her colleagues
has the Fios internet service, and he told her that the port blocking was
only a minor problem. He said that they block it in the free router they
give you, so if you use your own router you are fine. At least he is; he
has a web server working from his home. So I decided to go for it.
I got a little nervous when the guy doing the installation showed me
that they now have a single modem/router in one box, not two separate
boxes. But once I got into it (web interface on 192.168.1.1, as one
would hope) I found that the firewall settings page has different
levels of security, kinda like the network security settings in
Windows. Here's what it looks like:
Maximum Security (High)
Inbound Policy: Reject.
Outbound Policy: Reject.
Outbound access is allowed to the following services: DHCP,
DNS, IMAP, SMTP, POP3, HTTPS, HTTP, FTP, Telnet, Any, Any, Any.
(WTF is Any, Any, Any here?)
Typical Security (Medium)
Inbound Policy: Reject.
Outbound Policy: Accept.
Minimum Security (Low)
Inbound Policy: Accept.
Outbound Policy: Accept.
In addition, there is a control panel page for port forwarding, and
whatever you configure there overrides the general defaults shown
here, at least for inbound connections. So it looks like "Medium"
security provides a NAT firewall. I suspect that Maximum Security
would block outbound ssh, but maybe not; I have not (yet) tried that.
So I've got both web and mail servers running from home, behind a
firewall, and it seems to be not much different from Time-Warner's
service, except that upload/download speeds are about double what I
had before.
So it works, and it was worth taking the risk.
-Eric
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