[wplug] Pittsburgh DSL questions

eli eli.heady at gmail.com
Wed Jan 19 22:03:40 EST 2005


Hi Greg (and all - I'm new to WPLUG),

Have you looked into dyndns.org? they have free accounts that would 
serve your dns needs ( and they do serve many thousands of others doing 
what you are asking )

just a thought
-eli

Greg Akins wrote:

>Now that's good customer service;')
>
>I love Armstrong and have always had great service. I called when I had
>VPN problems and thought I remember more ports being blocked than that.
>
>Anyways, someone sent me to a site that used a Java Applet to scan my
>Internet IP address for open ports and it found none?  Either Armstrong
>is blocking more; or my FloppyFW firewall is doing a really good job.
>
>I'd love any additional ideas re: running servers using dynamic IP.  I'd
>like to run my own mailserver.
>
>On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 19:29, Darius Cardren wrote:
>  
>
>>no-ip.com and a port redirect on it
>>
>>(go head and switch 1 less person to call work when we have an outage ;))
>>
>>On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:24:45 -0500, rcthomas <rcthomas at zoominternet.net> wrote:
>>    
>>
>>> 
>>>Hi, 
>>>I live up here in Meadville and as you may have guessed I have Armstrong
>>>cable.. 
>>>I have just built a SME server with the intention of running a web server on
>>>it only to find out all of the damn ports are blocked. I would greatly
>>>appreciate if you could tell me how you are doing this with no-ip,as you are
>>>the only hope I have even found on the internet of being able to do it.
>>>Otherwaise I must give up on the idea or switch to Alltel's DSL which I
>>>prefer not to do. 
>>>Thanks a lot 
>>>Rich Thomas 
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