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Re: port blocking fun



 On Jan 9, 2008 11:30 AM, Matthew Gillen <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> Right. When I wasn't sure that it would ever be fixed, I poked around and 
> found another company that would do that as well (for half the price of 
> DynDNS's service: http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/s0306/prod/msf.html), but given 
> how difficult it was to get Comcast to do something technical, I can only 
> imagine what would've happened when I sent the invoice for that service to 
> them and told them they owed me.  (my feeling is, I wouldn't need that 
> additional pay service if they weren't disrupting my service to begin with, so 
> they should pay for it). 

Does Comcast allow incoming udp/53?  If so, you could have run your 
own authoritative DNS server configured with both MX and SRV records. 
You would have been able to do this for free...heh 

> I'm sure they would've laughed at me, and I didn't really want to go to small 
> claims court over it. 

I still like your reasoning, and considerate it quite logical :-P 
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen 
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