On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Dylan Hardison wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:20:24 -0500, Felix Boecker
> <3.14159265359@mad.scientist.com> wrote:
> > I currently am subscribed to RoadRunner but I cannot access any of my
> > internal network services from the outside. I have a webserver running
> > (and I'd switch to the RR Business plan had I more than ~5 visitors a
> > month) and have to remotely administer my parents' PCs while away at
> > college. So this is a pain in the neck. I have the feeling that RR has
> > blocked all incoming ports to my network. You think this is possible? My
> > outside access to the network just stopped working from one day to the
> > next without any intervention from the inside.
> Wow, that sucks. If they do that to me, as my father would say: "Theyre
> fired". According to their AUP, servers arn't foribdden. Using too much
> bandwidth is, of course. Blocking port 80, maybe FTP, I can understand.
That's why I run my web server on port 81. Well, not to avoid being TOSed,
but to avoid the brain-dead worms that assume "HTTP == MS HTTP server ==
port 80". ISTR a host at security.tampabay.rr.com scanning a bunch of
ports, among them port 81.
> But blocking SSH et al is moronic.
I suppose you could pass as much data via scp as you could via ftp, although
except by publishing a username/password pair I don't know how to make
anonymous scp.
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