From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 21 12:11:15 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 981D637B401 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:11:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.c.bus.net (65-85-139-3.client.dsl.net [65.85.139.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC17143FD7 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:11:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cao@bus.net) Received: from ws100.c.bus.net (ws102.c.bus.net [192.168.1.12]) by mail.c.bus.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78EABAC36 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:10:19 -0500 (EST) Received: (from cao@localhost) by ws100.c.bus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1LKB7di010088 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:11:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cao) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:11:07 -0500 From: chuck odonnell To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Verizon DSL & FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20030221201107.GA10028@bus.net> References: <20030221182254.5687.qmail@web20305.mail.yahoo.com> <200302211031.15370.kstewart@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302211031.15370.kstewart@owt.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:31:15AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > > I also don't user Verizon for an ISP because they don't permit local > servers. > i'm guessing you're talking about the inconvenient way some Cable/DSL ISPs block incoming connections on common server ports (25, 80)? usually this is only a real annoyance because you can't set up a mail server for your incoming SMTP email. if you have access to an outside Internet server, and you run postfix on it -- you can route incoming mail through the outside server, and using the postfix transport table forward the mail to a sendmail or postfix instance running on a high port on your internal server. works great! ...or like you said, just don't use that ISP :) chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message