rr != ATT? Would that it were so simple. As far as I can tell ATT != ATT, Comcast != Comcast, etc. I've lived in my current house since 2000 and the same coax cable coming into the living room has been MediaOne, RoadRunner, ATT and now Comcast without me changing anything. There have been a lot of strange combinations along the way. I've found that in almost NO cases does one person's understanding of their TOS and performance give any indication of what another's will be. For instance, during the ATT time, I kept hearing that ATT not only didn't allow web servers on their network, but that they blocked port 80. All the while, my webserver was religiously serving up web pages on port 80. With all of the mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, etc. that have taken place in the cable Internet business in the last few years, there are still divisions that tend to operate differently even though they send out bills on the same letterhead. For instance, even though I may be sending my check to Comcast, the people and equipment (and by extension the technical policies) of the old MediaOne may be in place. Keep in mind that this is all anecdotal, but I'm more convinced of it every day. > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 02:37:38PM -0500, Dan Drake wrote: >> On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 at 01:07PM -0500, Thomas Eibner wrote: >> > ATT (Now comcast) does NOT allow servers, >> >> I'm on ATT, and I notice that they ping my webserver every couple >> days, and once or twice they've tested my mail server for an open >> relay (in my mail logs I see an attempt to relay to an address like >> "relaytest at rr.com"). In each case the source is security.rr.com. >> >> Solution? >> >> $ iptables -A INPUT -s security.rr.com -j DROP >> >> I think if you keep your head down they don't mind. But with several >> websites and mailing lists... > > rr.com == roadrunner == time warner and not ATT/Comcast (1. > Could there be any other reason they're looking at your ip? Close > ip-range? > > 1) I have my signup material from ATT from 2 years ago where the > manual said ATT RoadRunner (they even refuse they ever had anything to > do with that today) > > -- > Thomas Eibner, Software Engineer Reuters Information Technology Inc. > St Paul, MN. Phone: 651-846-2137 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- J Wynia Pragmatic solutions to your web problems. www.pragmapool.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list