[SWLUG] Cable providers not wanting networks?

[Robert McQueen]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 08:53:26AM +0100, David Elir Evans wrote:
> My understanding (with respect to NTL) is that you are not allowed to run a
> publicly accessible http service nor ftp service, and the agreement also
> says that they can at their discretion extend this to other ports and
> services.
> 
> You can easily configure apache and wu-ftp to refuse requests from non LAN
> addresses, or to limit such access to known users.
> 
> I don't think NTL block ports though, but I believe that other providers do.
> You can make a guess from the broadband adverts that the marketing men seem
> to have control over the direction of, and the target market audience of
> broadband.  Pity about the dumbing down, perhaps they could point out other
> benefits, such as remote office access.  They seem to be concentrating on
> the ... 'serious' games player market at present.
> 
> I notice that Scotnet have a sub 30 pcm adsl deal, which gives you a static
> ip address and no port blocking.

My Demon ADSL is in the region of that, and also provides a static IP
with (as far as I can tell - I havn't tried much server stuff beyond
POP for my sister and recently SMTP for my own domain) no ports blocked.
I'm hoping to make use of it for tunneling to my LAN from afar too. =)

Regards,
Rob