New problem with firewall

[Rick Sivernell]

On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 22:16:51 -0500
Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 08 December 2005 5:15 pm, someone claiming to be Alma J Wetzker 
> wrote:
> <snip>
> > Could you be blocked by your ISP?  I know Comcast will not let me run a
> > mail server.  They already have huge problems with spam, that could just
> > overwhelm the internet if it were allowed.  (Think a windows spambot
> > that could work without going through the ISP mail servers, <shudder>.)
> >
> > Are any of the other ISP's more liberal about server policies than Comcast?
> 
> I ran a mailserver on Comcast for years. They didn't like outgoing mail from 
> my server, but they didn't care about me getting mail.
> 
> Currently, I've escaped the shackles of Comcast for the, um, shackles of 
> Verizon, and still receive e-mail to thewunders.org... (just can't run a 
> webserver on port 80).
> 
> Tim
> 
> -- 
> Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz), Linux 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4
> KDE: 3.5.0-1.6.fc4.kde, xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2
>  22:10:04 up 4 days,  3:22,  2 users,  load average: 0.83, 0.59, 0.47
> MP3/OGG archive Total playlength : 7 days, 16 hours, 27 mins 40 seconds
> "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts" John Wooden
> 
Tim

  I have Verizon, as you can see, I also have a webserver machine. I am using noip2
to announce my wlan dyn address. Works great as best I can tell.
www.dandrconsulting.org

cheers

-- 
Rick Sivernell
Dallas, Texas  75287
972 306-2296
res005ru at verizon.net
Registered Linux User