Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:09:41 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>, "David Caldwell" <dns@knology.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Am I thinking straight???? Message-ID: <013c01c0cd02$e20f3510$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <AHEPKFNCLEMEPHJEADDGGEACCAAA.dns@knology.net> <018401c0cd01$164a8de0$0400a8c0@oracle>
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> Does your provider allow hosting .... or at least not view it as a reason > for terminating your account ?? As I understand it in OZ, all present cable > / DSL providers will immediately terminate any homeuser (DHCP address) > account found to be running a server. At least one has already firewalled > out SMTP & according to some user reports, all cable / DSL providers > regularly run portscans ... presumably to check compliance with their > acceptable use policy. The @Home (cable) network in North America (US and Canada) regularly runs portscans, but any sane set of firewall rules will block all probe attempts by their sniffer. According to the AUP, it's forbidden to run servers, but from my experience, they couldn't care less. I've run mail and web servers with public DNS records for the past year and nary a warning. I think they only really crack down on people who are abusing the service and are using more than their fair share of bandwidth. As for DSL providers, the story is a bit different. Many DSL providers have some strong telco inroads, and don't really want (or are, uh, "convinced") to let residential users use their DSL connections instead of forcing them into higher-priced "business" connections such as 128Kbps ISDN. Some DSL providers block port 25 and/or use transparent proxying on port 80. Both of these can interfere with SMTP and HTTP serving. However, there do exist providers that say up-front that serving is allowed, and just place a bandwidth cap on serving. (One provider I'm checking out right now caps SMTP and HTTP "serving" at 200MB/month, which isn't too shabby for a home-office type of setup.) It all really comes down to government regulation (which you have plenty of in OZ) and competition (which there isn't much of in OZ.) Here in North America we're blessed with a pseudo-inverse situation which means we can get away with a fair bit :) -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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