Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 06:56:47 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "David Caldwell" <dns@knology.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Am I thinking straight???? Message-ID: <018401c0cd01$164a8de0$0400a8c0@oracle> References: <AHEPKFNCLEMEPHJEADDGGEACCAAA.dns@knology.net>
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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. I understand some users are resorting to tricky firewalling & servers on non-standard ports in an attempt to get around this situation but I have no idea how successful is.that strategy. One local mailing list thread suggested that the provider could still prove the user was running a server by looking at packet headers, but could not take action because of privacy legislation. Again I don't know whether or not its true .... maybe the experts have an opinion ?? ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Caldwell" <dns@knology.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 3:59 AM Subject: Am I thinking straight???? > I am planning to set up a machine to host 2 web sites thru dynamic DNS via > my cable access. > I know I can host the sites, and I know I can do the dynamic DNS > workarounds. > I am planning on running apache, cucipop, and a firewall on freebsd. I have > read up and find this not to be so uncommon. > Here is where my problem lies....I am planning on running this all off of a > 486 66MHz workstation I have with 40MB ram and a 512 SCSI drive. > I anticipate having to upgrade the drive soon, but will it do for now? > Am I going to have enough space to run this or do I need more? > Any suggestions? Any comments? anybody doing this on a machine this slow? > > David Caldwell > dns@knology.net > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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