From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 22 19:15:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta03.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE5F37B405 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 19:15:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au ([203.166.66.104]) by mta03.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20011123031502.ELBY1671.mta03.mail.mel.aone.net.au@ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au>; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 14:15:02 +1100 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011123140504.01c4ad60@pop.ozemail.com.au> X-Sender: rbyrnes@pop.ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: I wish it was Linux Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 14:06:14 +1100 To: "Kathy Quinlan" From: Rob B Subject: Re: Servers on bigpond adsl Cc: In-Reply-To: <025501c1736e$82705040$fe00a8c0@wskatinka> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 02:58 23/11/2001, Kathy Quinlan sent this up the stick: >Hi all, > >I am looking at running a test server on my home ADSL link through Telstra >Bigpond. I believe they use a port scanner to detect and kick us if we do it >?/ > >I am wondering if anyone has any ideas to over come it ?? I am only using it >to test some websites and get feedback from people before dropping the >webserver off to the local Primary School (is easier to make changes and >work on it local rather than through their 56K modem) in both locations they >are only handling redirections from a main server/ firewall machine, so no >worries about swapping from PPPoE back to PPP No, they aren't portscanning at this time, although they probably could. Optus (cable) do portscan, however. Cheers, Rob -- Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement. [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian This is random quote 1157 of a collection of 1192 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message