Subj : Re: Handy list of TCP ports? To : Glenn M. From : Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l Date : Sun Mar 25 2001 01:55 pm From: "Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l" Glenn, You can also make a dynamic connection work for a secondary server. gs "Glenn M." wrote in message news:3abec19c$1@w3.nls.net... > What if the "blocking" was done because the ISP TOS said you could not run > local servers? That fair game? Do you allow people who subscribe as $14.95 > customers, or let's say DSL subscribers (don't know what you charge for that). > Can a DSL subscriber get a fixed IP address, and run their own web site, or > mail server? > > -- > Glenn Meadows > > > "Geo." wrote in message news:3abeae61$1@w3.nls.net... > | "Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l" wrote in message > | news:3abe929f$1@w3.nls.net... > | > I was thinking more of scanning that originates with your subscribers. > | > | Suppose you dial into the internet from home in order to scan your web > | server at work so you can determine if it's safe or not. You scan it and get > | no open ports (because your ISP is blocking the outbound scan) so you think > | it's safe when in fact it isn't. > | > | I'm kind of surprised at these suggestions. How many of you would get pissed > | off if your ISP were blocking some function you wanted to do over the net? > | Most people, myself included, feel that when we pay for an internet > | connection, how we use that connection is nobody's business but our own (as > | long as we aren't breaking the law). You guys have no idea how many > | customers we pick up because their old ISP started blocking some function > | (outgoing smtp connections for one example). > | > | I won't do that, I won't sell an internet connection that doesn't measure up > | to the standards I would demand if I were paying for that connection. If I > | have a problem with people scanning me then I'll put up a firewall (as I > | have) and block it myself. Only when I can't block it, as in the case of a > | flood, would I want help from the ISP. (and in that case I would not have a > | problem putting up a block to help the customer). > | > | Geo. > | > | > --- BBBS/NT v4.00 MP * Origin: Barktopia Gating Project http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) .