[KLUG Members] note on charter cable isp connections

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 08:46, Buist Justin wrote:
> As an Earthlink/Mindspring DSL customer for about a year
> I never found them blocking incoming connections.  I was quite
> happy with their service.
> One thing I -didn't- like though was the dropping of all outgoing
> packets to port 25 unless it was their mailserver.
> It didn't mention this anywhere in the contract I signed up with
> (beleive me... I looked when I found out what theyw ere doing) and
> they flatly refused to lift the ban on an account by account basis.

SSH tunnel your SMTP needs.  That's always been my workaround.
Either that, or setup the external mailserver to answer on another port
as well as port 25.

-- Bryan

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