[ale] AT&T Broadband blocking inbound http?

[Rick Huebner]

Actually, if you do a search on the following URL, you will find no mention
of a prohibition of web servers or any other server for that matter.  This
URL is the AUP for AT&T.  I brought this up with AT&T and they had no
intelligible response.

AT&T AUP
http://help.broadband.att.com/faq.jsp?content_id=72&category_id=34

AT&T Leased Modem Subscriber Agreement(look at 9b as this seems to allow
users to run http and ftp servers)
http://help.broadband.att.com/subagreelease.jsp

Anyway, BellSouth called today wanting to put in DSL.  I don't think that I
qualify as they have felt that I can get DSL for over a year.  The only
problem is that there is a Fiber run from the CO to my apartment complex.
They actually rolled a truck and found this out!

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Rick Huebner
rickh at bigfoot.com
http://ditchdoctor.dyndns.org
OR because of the morons running IIS and MediaOne blocking port 80
http://ditchdoctor.dyndns.org:15001


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From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Wandered
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Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 7:19 AM
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Subject: Re: [ale] AT&T Broadband blocking inbound http?


"Transam at cavu.com" wrote:
>
> > http://help.broadband.att.com/faq.jsp?content_id=792&category_id=54
>
> > Looks like the party is over for AT&T and @Home customers...
>
> Thanks for the URL.  I just sent a "support" email to them telling 'em
> what greedy bastards they were for using this as an excuse to block
> port 80 to force people operating web servers to pay them more for
> commercial service.  (You may want to tell them too.)

Full disclosure, I work for AT&T (not broadband though).  Further, I
have access to AT&T Broadband service, but my connectivity is DSL.  That
being said, I'll note that the Broadband policy states that you are not
permitted to run a server.  So, for those folks using their service,
this should be something they were aware of from the beginning.
Actually, I'm kind of surprised that those ISP's who explicitly deny
such usage aren't blocking these ports from the beginning.  Do I agree
with that policy, not necessarily, that's one of the primary reasons I'm
on DSL.

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