Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:11:07 -0500 From: chuck odonnell <cao@bus.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Verizon DSL & FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20030221201107.GA10028@bus.net> In-Reply-To: <200302211031.15370.kstewart@owt.com> References: <20030221182254.5687.qmail@web20305.mail.yahoo.com> <200302211031.15370.kstewart@owt.com>
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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
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