Yes, they scan all the standard ports. If you check your terms of
service, you aren't supposed to run _any_ servers. I've talked to
several of the technicians and admins. The real problem for them is a
neighborhood with 10-15 kids and a quake server. Suddenly everyone else
in the neighborhood has a cable modem that is slower than a dialup.
Also, it is a lever for them to move you up to business class service
(more $). If they want to be difficult, and you let it slip, they'll
claim the fact that you send/receive e-mail to your office indicates
that you are using the service for business and should be paying
business class fees.
I've gone round and round with them on these issues and came within a
keystroke of loosing my service. I was only saved because of a friend
in management kept that from happening. He explained to me at one time
that asside from the fact that they have your signature/agreement to
these stipulations, that they are also immune from certain legal tactics
involving fair use of the Internet because they are not an Internet
Services Provider, that RoadRunner is an enhanced cable service, and as
such they can do with it as they wish.
He did indicate that they don't scan all the ports, just the common
ones. That if you need, say, ftp access, set it up on a high port,
don't use it a lot and everthing should be fine.
Todd
PS in case no one has mentioned it, routers or firewalls are forbidden
too..... And if you don't have one, your nuts.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net] On
> Behalf Of Matt Moen
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:38 AM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] DNS Server -- RR POP3/SSL
>
>
> Has anyone had complaints about other services besides DNS?
> Namely, do they have much to say about ports 80, 25, and 443?
>
> I'm assuming this nastygram came via their e-mail service,
> right? I use other means (like port 25 and panix.com) for
> receiving e-mail, and after looking at how often they have
> problems with their smtp/pop3/whatever on their service
> website, I haven't been exactly antsy to figure out what my
> username/password is there.
>
> Matt
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 04:26:32PM -0400, Todd Robinson wrote:
> > You should be careful to not leave your dns server open on the RR
> > side. They scan for them, and others. You will get a nasty gram if
> > they see it, followed by a disconnect of service if you
> don't comply
> > to the nasty gram.
> >
> > Todd
> >
> > Been there, done that.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net] On
> > > Behalf Of Matt Miller
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 2:33 PM
> > > To: slug@nks.net
> > > Subject: Re: [SLUG] DNS Server -- RR POP3/SSL
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 13:12, Jason Copenhaver wrote:
> > > > actually yeah.. I did think of that.. or actually.. somone
> > > suggested i
> > > > run DNRD which is a DNS relay/cache daemon.. this way I
> > > will have my
> > > > most used names resolved already..
> > > >
> > > > Jason
> > > >
> > >
> > > Excellent. I have RR at home as well and I know how flaky
> > > their network services can be at times -- DNS, pop, smtp,etc.
> > > On a side note, I noticed the other day that
> > > pop-server.tampabay.rr.com "supports" ssl, but I can not
> > > authenticate to their pop server(s) with ssl enabled (I
> > > accepted the unsigned certificate). I receive a "ssl pop
> > > operation is not allowed for this user" message. I can pop
> > > mail fine with ssl disabled -- cleartext. Has anyone been
> > > able to get ssl working with the RR pop server? Or is this
> > > feature reserved only for the privileged few?
> > > --
> > > Matt Miller
> > > Systems Administrator
> > > MP TotalCare, INC
> > > gpg public key id:
> > > 08BC7B06
> > >
> >
>
>
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