Server Lockdown

[Jack at coats.org (Jack Coats)]

I have got around this kind of 'agreement' by finding a cheap
colo/co-hosting place and use it as a 'gateway' server.  I can even ssh
tunnel to it and effectively vpn from there to my home server.

not quite the same, but it works.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-discuss at Blu.Org [mailto:owner-discuss at Blu.Org]On Behalf Of
Derek Martin
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 8:16 AM
To: David Lapointe
Cc: discuss at Blu.Org
Subject: Re: Server Lockdown


On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 07:33:39AM -0400, David Lapointe wrote:
> This seems to say it clearly.
>
> "AT&T Broadband does not allow servers to be connected to the cable
modem.
> This means that no computer in a personal network can be used as a
server."
>
> http://help.broadband.att.com/faq.jsp?content_id=416&category_id=34

May be so, but the subscriber agreement includes text which sugests
(though does not outright SAY) that it IS o.k. to run servers.  The
above is not part of your subscriber agreement...

Of course they can terminate your account for violating that anyway,
and since they're basically a monopoly in many areas, and competition
is so limited where they aren't, that they can get away with that kind
of crap.

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