Linux-friendly ISPs?
Charles Heselton
charles.heselton at gmail.com
Sat Aug 28 20:20:48 UTC 2004
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 08:53:48 -0500, James Kaufman
<jmk at kaufman.eden-prairie.mn.us> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 11:02:49PM -0700, Charles Heselton wrote:
> >
> > I have 2 windows boxen, 1 (sometimes 2) fedora boxen, and 6 Sun boxes
> > that all connect through a switch and Smoothwall configuration. I use
> > Cox as my ISP, which recently just upgraded their service to 4Mbps
> > down and 512 Kbps up. Never had any problems there, other than them
> > blocking server ports (80, 25, etc.)
> -----------------------------------
>
> To me, that sounds unfriendly. If you simply want to receive content then most
> ISP's are 'friendly'. If you want to serve content, then you have to look
> harder.
I can see how some might think that was "unfriendly". However, the
ISP doesn't care whether it's M$ IIS or Linux Apache that's being run
on port 80. They don't care whether it's M$ Exchange or Sendmail
that's listening on port 25. They block all (or both)
indiscriminately. So while it may be SERVER unfriendly, I wouldn't
agree that's it LINUX unfriendly.
It's also a decent security measure. Blocking (especially) port 25
can help to stop some worms from propogating.
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