Speakeasy alternatives

[Dan Ritter]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 08:55:31PM -0400, James Kramer wrote:
> 
> I live in Newton also and have comcast for my tv.  Does comcast block
> ports.

Varies by neighborhood. Some have port 25 and/or 80 blocked,
some do not.

> I imagine that they have a dynamic IP.  How is it to run
> servers on it?  In the past I had an ISP with dynamic IP and used
> another service ( I forget the name dynamicDNS?) to provide a stable
> DNS connection.

www.dyndns.com, perhaps?

> I may give Comcast a try.  What service do you
> recommend for the stable DNS connection?  Also while I am thinking
> about it Is it possible to assign a port in the DNS server record?
> for instance 'jay.kramer.com:9673'

No. DNS maps from names to machines. DynDNS, along with most
other such services, may provide you with a URL alias for some
amount of money, but that's not a DNS ability.

-dsr-

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