Try running it on a different port.  They can only catch for that if
they port scan all 65k ports, and try an HTTP connection to each open
port, which doesn't seem like a reasonable thing to do.  I'd bet they
just check for an open port 80.

John

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 14:23 -0400, Randolph Baden wrote:
> I didn't tell them that I was running Linux, personally, that was my
> roommate..  But we have discovered what the issue really is.
> Apparently it violates the ToS to run a web server (which I didn't
> know when we signed up for it), so that was the problem.  Of course
> this has nothing to do with Linux, except that now I have this
> excellent photo gallery that I made that I can't even reasonably use
> because 1) I practically need root access to install it anywhere, and
> 2) I have about 2.5 GB of pictures, which doesn't even include the
> thumbnails.
>
> GRRR.  GRRR GRRR GRRR.
> :/
>
> Oh well, on the bright side at least I can view it on my own machine...
>
> On 7/1/05, Gary Ayvazov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > the key is to never ever tell comcast (or any other ISP, really) that
> > you're running linux. they want to find any reason to blame the crappy
> > service on you. i cant count how many times my conversation with the
> > comcast guys went something like this:
> >
> > me: my service is down.
> > him: clear your cookies, and then reboot your computer
> > me: *does absolutely nothing* alright, its rebooting. *service magically
> > restored*
> >
> > they dont really like to admit how often it goes down.
> >
> > -gary
> >
> > Randolph Baden wrote:
> >
> > >I figure some people on here must have used Comcast at some point, so
> > >I figure I should ask you all for confirmation about what those jerks
> > >tried to tell me today.
> > >
> > >We finally had our service working after about a week of down time,
> > >but it recently cut out, and Comcast is claiming that it's because
> > >they don't support Linux.  If you ask me this sounds like complete BS.
> > > They said that some of our packets were considered invalid or
> > >something so we were "wallblocked" or something similarly nonsensical.
> > >
> > >Since there's no reason that a packet coming from a Linux machine
> > >(especially after going through the router) should be any different
> > >than a packet coming from any other machine, I wanted to know if
> > >anyone else has ever had this problem with Comcast, or else, if some
> > >people have explicitly not had this problem with Comcast and instead
> > >we found yet another incompetent Customer Service rep.
> > >
> > >
> > >GRRR!  And thanks.  :/
> > >
> > >
> > >--
> > >-Randy Baden
> > >AIM: Randofu
> > >Cell: 301-751-5114
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> -Randy Baden
> AIM: Randofu
> Cell: 301-751-5114
>

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