[SLL] OT warning--Comcast opt out

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007, Glenn Stone wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 01:50:54PM -0700, Chris Fischer wrote:
...
>
>And though in practice folks' experience may vary, Comcast Residential
>explicitly forbids servers of any kind ever ever ever, subject to
>termination, collection, and dispatch of the Narn Bat Squad(tm).  

Comcast didn't appear to be blocking outgoing port 25 today, although they
have in the past (and probably should be given the number of zombified
Winblows machines on the network).

We generally set up our customer's Linux boxes that are on Comcast or other
broadband systems to go through our servers on a different port or using
uucp over tcp to avoid issues like this, and to prevent them from
accidentally being abused.


>In a word, fuggeddabowdit.... 
>
>There are other, better ISP's out there.  (Speakeasy's status as a WOS of
>Worst Buy is still in doubt, but they didn't give me any trouble
>disconnecting when I gave them the ticket number in which they said "so
>sorry, we can't serve you there", so that counts for something)  But if
>you're faced with Qwest vs. Comcast, and you're reading this, I think the
>choice is obvious.  

I have not seen any problems with Speakeasy since the acquisition.  They're
still very responsive when I report owned machines on their network that
are used in ssh dictionary attacks and similar nonsense.

Bill
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