Re: [?] DYNDNS host vulnerability

Wolfgang Draxinger <wdraxinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Doug Mitton wrote:

cut down on the error logs generated by script-kiddies. Also,
the alternate server ports resolves issues with ISP's who block
certain ports getting into their address space.

Then get a better ISP. You got your own IP, when connected to the
Internet, all ports on that IP will only affect you. As long
your ISP doesn't share the IP with you (what it hopefully won't
do) there's simply no reason to block traffic on certain ports.
Technically you got a crippled Internet access, then.

Look up the contract with the ISP, if there's anything in it,
about letting ports x-y only through if "the moon is full and
venus in the house of scropio" or similair. If not, then demand
uncrippled access. If your ISP denies, due to demands by the
RIAA, MPAA, etc. to block P2P traffic, tell him, that protocols
are not bound to ports, especially P2P protocols. And if I'm not
totally wrong, it's illegal in democratic countries to filter by
the content (which in the case means also protocol), even if
nowadays many politicians tell you otherwise. Such filtering
would definitely be censorship.

Wolfgang Draxinger

If you do a search on my name for the last year or so you'll see I've
been posting to see if others on my ISP (one of Canada's largest) are
having the same issues ... and they are. I have a lot of problems
with my ISP ... all mainly just infrastructure connection issues.
But, they also change agreements right in the middle ... contract or
not.

And to complain ... the first issue is communication ... and not the
obvious one you'd expect for Canada ... Central Asia seems to be the
tech support supplier of choice.

<Now you've got me on a tangent :-) ><I could go on more here but I
won't! :-) >

Any way ... if the world were a perfect place ... what would we have
to gripe and have opinions about! :-)
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