[Wolves] Blueyonder AUP

[Wayne Morris]

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 19:15, Ron Wellsted wrote:

> > The 1Mbit when I had it in Bristol was 256Kbit upload. I think the 2Mbit
> > might be 512Kbit, though I am unsure about that.
> 
> The 512K service has 128K up, 1M and 2M has 256K up.
> 
> One of downsides to running a server is that you are advertising the address 
> of your home machine (or the outside of your firewall) for every script kiddy 
> to waste your bandwith trying to break in to your server.

I use BlueYonder and the AUP actually says that you can run a server, but all users have
 to be authenticated by username/pass (yes even for http!) and commercial is a strict no-no.

That said, my low volume commercial site hasn't been rumbled yet and my smoothwall seems to keep
out the hackers.

Watch out for other BY customers tho, they lurve reporting servers who violate the AUP.


As to advertising your connection, it occurred to me today that there might be some mileage in 
using the no-ip redirect service I already have to redirect to say port 8080 and then that would 
defeat port-scanning on port 80