On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 04:44:13PM -0500, Austad, Jay wrote: > Mediaone runs constant portscans on 2 of my friends cable connections to > make sure they are not running servers. If they catch you, they warn you > once, if they catch you again, they disconnect you for good. That's what I thought they would. > I've heard that roadrunner is the same way. Although, you could probably > set up a linux firewall, watch the logs to see where they are portscanning > you from, and then deny all packets from the ip/network that they scan you > from and start up your webserver once you have them blocked out. This is what I don't get, ATT says my connection is RoadRunner, when I'm online my reverse dns is something like nic-123-123-123.mn.mediaone.net, what's the difference there? -- Thomas Eibner <http://thomas.eibner.dk/> DnsZone <http://dnszone.org/> mod_pointer <http://stderr.net/mod_pointer>