Connectivity woes in Boston

[numberwhun at hotmail.com (Numberwhun *****)]

I have AT&T Roadrunner service and during an incident where my Cable router 
decided to stop working (mysteriously), I discovered from the "tech support" 
guy that they issue all of it's customers a new IP address, on the fly, 
every 3 days.  How, may I ask, can they do that while you are surfing or 
doing other things online?  Wouldn't that screw up any large projects you 
were working on, such as downloading or uploading?

#jlk


>From: "thorin" <thorin at digitalvoodoo.org>
>Reply-To: <thorin at digitalvoodoo.org>
>To: "'Jerry Feldman'" <gaf at Blu.Org>, <discuss at Blu.Org>
>Subject: RE: Connectivity woes in Boston
>Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 01:13:19 -0400
>
>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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