Just to give you an any idea. I’ve run ftp(no anonymous
access, 21, 990 ..etc), vpn, vnc, web(http, https, other web ports), mail(no
open relay, 25, 465, 110, 143 ..etc), telnet, ssh, dns, QTSM, …etc all on
dynamic IP, all via residential accounts. Multiple servers up 24/7 with
large amounts of incoming and outgoing traffic with never a peep from the isp.
ISP’s included Verizon, CavTel, Comcast, XO, Speakeasy, Earthlink, and
Celluar. I’ve never even considered collocation.
If you’ve either accidently or on purpose run an open mail
relay server than you mite be flagged by your isp as a spam source and they
very well mite be eye balling your incoming traffic.
I recommend that you ask you ISP for a bridge instead of the
PPOE accounts. But I’ve done it all without trouble on both.
Even if they do block ports it’s just impendence on
their part as there are many ways around it.
Again “DISLAMER” “all in my experience”.
Brian Vagnoni
From:
plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org [mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org] On
Behalf Of Brian Vagnoni
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 12:59 PM
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Verizon port blocking?
Opps
forgot I was in a virtual machine with no spell check on my sincere apologies
to the list.
I've never had any trouble configuring services to run on any type of internet
connection. IMHO I believe this to be a myth and with all due respect feel the
trouble lays with the firewall configurer not the ISP. I'm not stating this as
fact so don't flame me, I disclaim my statement with "in my
experience".
From: Brian Vagnoni
[mailto:bvagnoni@v-system.net]
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List
[mailto:plug@lists.phillylinux.org]
Sent: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:52:49 -0500
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Verizon port blocking?
I've
never had any trouble configuring services to run on any type of internet
connection. IMHO I believe this to be a myth and with all due respect feel the
trouble lies with the configurer not the ISP. I not staying thi sis fact so
don't flame me, I disclaim my statemnt with "in my experience".
From: Doug Crompton
[mailto:doug@crompton.com]
To: Phila Linux Users Group [mailto:PLUG@lists.phillylinux.org]
Sent: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:59:27 -0500
Subject: [PLUG] Verizon port blocking?
Just a general question regarding Veizon residential DSL. I was at a
friends house tonight trying to get his security DVR visible to the
internet. It plays fine on the local network.
The modem is a Westel 4 port/wireless router and the configuration is very
unintuative. I did manange to get it set up though with the DVR set at a
LAN static address and port forwarding to its IP and port. I tried
different ports like 8080, 6520.
Again this is fine locally, the DVR puts up a login HTML screen, but it
seems nothing gets through when coming in through the internet. I even
tried setting up an FTP server but was not able to connect. At that point
we were tired and gave up for the night.
Googling port issues on Verizon gives mixed messages. Some say all
incoming ports are blocked, which I would not believe and others say just
port 80, which would not be an issue in this case.
If it were me I would get a dumb DSL modem and use a decent DSL router,
like a Buffalo but he does not have that expertise.
Any ideas?
___________________________________________________________________________
Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org
Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce
General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug