[PLUG] broadbrand advice

[Anthony Schlemmer]

FWIW,

I know a few people that have done this and as far as I know they 
haven't been nailed by AT&T for violating their EULA which forbids the 
running of a server. These people aren't getting very many hits at all 
but having their own website has proved useful for posting a few 
pictures and other stuff online. If you were running a high traffic 
site on your system you might be detected but given that the up link 
speeds on AT&T aren't that great IMHO, I can't imagine anyone running a 
high traffic web or FTP site through their cable modem service.

I don't run any public servers but I do have sendmail set up on my 
gateway system which accessible to systems on my internal network. I 
have sendmail setup to relay any of my network's own outgoing email 
through AT&T's mail servers. This works fine since my system resides on 
AT&T's network so their email server readily accept email from my 
system.

I did have to do a little configuration work with sendmail so it uses my 
"attbi.com" email address rather than my local userid and bogus domain 
name which I use on my internal network.

Tony

On Monday 03 February 2003 12:11 pm, Timothy Grant wrote:
> On Sunday 02 February 2003 09:04 am, Scott Van Hoosen wrote:
> > happening often, I would switch to DSL because I like
> > to run a web server, and to log in remotely through
> > ssh, etc, and would want a static IP.
>
> Scott,
>
> I'm an AT&T customer, and I run my own mail server (using the
> rationale that the bandwidth is the same to AT&T whether I host my
> mail in my basement, or go out to another mail-server somewhere to
> get it).
>
> However, I haven't had the nerve to put up a webserver, as I can't
> rationalize that violation of the TOS (that's not a moral
> determination, it's just a lame defense if I should ever be asked
> about it).
>
> That said, I desperately want to run my own website on my own server
> in my own basement. Have you ever been questioned or had any flags
> raised over this technical violation of the AT&T TOS?

-- 
Anthony Schlemmer
aschlemm at attbi.com