Here in Saudi Arabia, most ISPs are happy to provide what I like to call "five sevens" service. I think that it would be awesome to have a net connection stable enough to run a smtp or http server. Then again I think it would be nice to have an ISP where I don't have to run "pull" 3 or 4 times in order to get a full update.
I can't get out of here fast enough (2.5 months left on contract). -jcw On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:57 PM, sqweek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:59 PM, jfmxl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My ISP was blocking port 25 outgoing, so I could send mail to my own > > mailserver. It turned out that sendmail was listening on port 587 as > > well, so I use that instead. > > > > I assumed my ISP was blocking outgoing port 25 to stop captured > > machines from spamming. Why do you think yours stopped incoming port > > 25? Probably just easier to block it in both directions? > > My ISP blocks common incoming ports (25, 80) by default, presumably > because they see much more abuse than legitimate use - just think of > the number of people who run mail/www servers over residential > broadband vs the number of people with potentially vulnerable windows > machines. Fortunately for me, my ISP also provides an easy way to turn > the filtering off. > -sqweek > >
