[KLUG Members] at-home cops, evading the

[Jeff Mayrand]

Or take the legal route and host the pages on the server space you already have.  At home provides space for personal pages which sounds exactly like what you want to do.

Jeff Mayrand


On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:12:14 -0400
Bill <selinux@home.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know how to evade the at-home cops? I want to run a LIGHTLY 
> loaded website from my static at-home address. This is just to share 
> family photos, news, my resume, etc and will never see much traffic. I 
> have 700 megs of leased commercial space but, to eliminate any tough 
> questions from the IRS, I don't want to use it for personal use. More than 
> that, I have a 10 gig HD and a 10 MB/s connection sitting on the desk to 
> my left that is essentially 100% unused capacity.
> 
> I have crawled all over the com_cast-at-home web site and can not find a 
> plan that will permit this. I thought, from the way the sales techie 
> spoke, that I was getting this right; but the TOS agreement says 
> otherwise. I want the experience of running a web site from home ... to be 
> able to point an employer to it as proof of competence.
> 
> I have a static address into a router, a spare machine with nic etc, 
> Mandrake 8.0 and Apache loaded & working. I BRIEFLY opened port 80  
> --built into the Linksys router-- and had my son grab a page I had placed 
> there ... it all works ... then closed the port down again.
> 
> Since I can not find a way to do this openly, I am looking for a way to 
> evade their detection software. It seems I should be able to coax Apache 
> into listening on a high port and passing that port address around the 
> family. Maybe someone knows of a different method or can tell me why this 
> one won't work?
> 
> Bill
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