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Posted by Charles Newman on September 7, 2006, 4:11 am
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Make sure they are not blocking ALL incoming ports.
Comcast is now blocking incoming traffic on ALL
65,536 ports. I was running a small server and
doing my own online talk show, but have discovered
all ALL incoming ports have been blocked. Now I
gotta spend extra money to get on something like
Live365.
> I have Charter Cablemodem access. Like most any broadband provider
> they mention 'no webservers, no ftp servers, no gameservers" etc. Just
> *how* closely do they watch this?
>
> I realize I'm the one breaking the rules and taking the risks, but I
> would like to set up a small webserver at home. It will be very very
> low bandwidth- mostly just to host small images like avatars and stuff
> for a few forums I frequent. I will also like to have ftpd running on
> it for the infrequent times of moving small files around (less than
> 2mb, in most cases). I understand the usual ports are blocked and I
> know how to get around that.
>
>
> I know it's against the rules, but has anyone ever done this
> themselves? Ever get 'busted', and if so, what did they do? I have a
> feeling that as long as I don't rock the boat too hard they either
> won't notice or won't care as much.
>
> But I could be wrong.
>
> Thanks for any insight.
>
> -phaeton
>
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