Connectivity woes in Boston

[thorin at digitalvoodoo.org (thorin)]

Actually @HOME will terminate anyone running a 'server' with no notice. 
AT&T/M1 - now AT&T at Home had not transitioned over to that structure yet,
but rumors are running rampant lately regarding upcoming changes in the
AUP.

Right now, AT&T could care less what you are running as long as they
don't get any complaints. Just keep it tight and no one will bother you.

Of course there also the AT&T Tech that said they were planning to
implement AOL-Style address allocation (reassigning addresses at random
intervals during a session).   Make sure you have a good DDNS client and
flexible firewall rule set...



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-discuss at blu.org [mailto:owner-discuss at blu.org] On Behalf Of
Jerry Feldman
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 15:01
To: discuss at blu.org
Subject: Re: Connectivity woes in Boston


Same here. I run sshd, httpd (currently serving a SuSE default page 
since I blew away my original source), and a mail server. 
What they are really concerned about is those servers that can be used 
by others, such as and IRC server. 
On 3 Aug 2001, at 14:20, Duane Morin wrote:

> I think their primary concern re: servers is traffic generated by 
> commercial ventures (and them wanting to charge you an extra arm and a

> leg).  if you're still going to receive the same volume of mail, and 
> it's just that you're going to direct it straight to your box instead 
> of through theirs, I bet they never even notice.  I suspect there's 
> lots and
> lots of AT&T customers who are banking on that.
> 
> After all, what constitutes a "server" if you really want to get 
> technical?  I want to connect to my home machine from work, so I run 
> an ssh daemon.  Am I now an ssh server?  I'm the only client, so it's 
> not like I've got a dozen people sharing the line or something.  If 
> I'm running Apache primarily because httpd starts up by default, am I 
> a web server that should get taken down by them?
> 
>  Duane
> 
>  On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, John J
> Boland wrote:
> 
> > oh, woe is me!
> >
> > tiac.net/inter.net is changing over to new access numbers and i no
> longer get
> > my static address, which was part of my premium service, i get a
> dynamic
> > address now.  i haven't been all that happy with the service over 
> > the
> last
> > several months (slowww downloads, several retries to connect).
> >
> > so, i've been looking at high-speed internet access options in the
> city
> > of Boston: DSL and cable modems.
> > Unfortunately, i'm 500 feet too far from my CO for DSL. Cablevision 
> > of Boston had struck up a deal with @home for cable-based internet 
> > service.  Since at&t took over, they haven't changed the deal
> with
> > @home and that appears to be the only service i can get. the aup 
> > from
> @home
> > is very restrictive, no servers of any kind.  the one guy i managed 
> > to
> find in
> > customer service, who knew anything about anything, gave me the
> impression
> > that they monitored connections/usage and would terminate the 
> > account
> of
> > any suspected servers and that @home was geared more towards basic 
> > web
> surfing
> > and their email service. so, i wouldn't be able to set up my own 
> > mail
> or web
> > server.
> >
> > so, i guess i've got two questions:
> > 1) are there any other high-speed options available in the city of
> Boston?
> > 2) should i just ignore the aup and setup my own servers?
> >
> > tia...
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org
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