[ale] AT&T Broadband blocking inbound http?

[Wandered Inn]

Rick Huebner wrote:
> 
> 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.

They do have conflicting information.  As I posted earlier, there is
verbage that specifically dictates that you may not run server processes
(webserver, gamer, whatever.

> 
> 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!

You're probably looking ifttl, which will work although you'll need
ppoe.

They won't want you running servers either, unless you pay for a
Business connection, which provides you a static IP.

> 
> ---
> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Wandered
> Inn
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 7:19 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> 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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