On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 15:38 -0400, Nick Cummings wrote: > "The consumer offers do not permit customers to host any type of server, > personal or commercial." > > -- The Verizon FIOS FAQ > http://www22.verizon.com/fiosforhome/channels/fios/root/faq.asp#features_q1
If you play something like xpilot or freeciv, you might want to run a server (on port >= 1024, with only a few clients across the Internet). If you use peer-to-peer file sharing (such as DC++, or AIM's file transfer feature), you might want to be "active" instead of "passive". I am surprised that so many ISPs offer server-less internet access. In actual practice, I only let localhost (or maybe a LAN) connect to my servers (1-player game) because there are already plenty of public game servers, and I don't use peer-to-peer file sharing because program-1.23.tar.bz2 is small and readily available from several mirrors, while huge-linux-livecd-2005.iso is something I only download occasionally. - George Koehler
