I think they're trying to allow casual sharing of information, such as a
server for sharing photos of the kids with the grandparents off in
another state.  (Wouldn't even make a dent in the bandwidth.)

But if you start running something like a Freshmeat.net or a
Slashdot.org, then you're begging to be cut off.

At least, I hope they aren't such bastards that they'd cut off a family
site.

(They also never noticed the DHCP server, but I did tell it only to
respond to eth1.)

Jeffrey Pyne wrote:
> 
> On Friday, August 24, 2001 David A. Sinck wrote:
> 
> > Well, in general, they say 'no servers', but they aren't necessarily
> > enforcing all the servers you could be running.  They nominate SMTP,
> > HTTP, NNTP, and DHCP (I believe) by name tho.
> 
> > http://www.cox.com/Service/CoxatHome/Subscriber%20Agreement.asp
> 
> So riddle me this:  They say in section 8(l) of the AUP "Thou shalt not run
> a web server, ftp server, etc.," but then in section 19(b) they say "Thou
> mayest use web, ftp and other server software to allow other users to access
> information on your computer-- just don't come crying to us when something
> bad happens to you as a result."  Am I misreading something, or is this
> contradictory?
> 
> > You'll be in deep trouble if you run a DHCP server and it responds
> > faster than theirs.  :-)
> 
> Heh.  :)
> 
> > FWIW, my firewall regularly detects a scan for NNTP by @home.
> 
> Have you ever seen NNTP scans from networks other than @Home's?  Or rather,
> do you think they would ever think to do port scans from a network other
> than their own?  I'm guessing not, so I just have my firewall block
> everything with a source address of 24.0.0.0/8, and then allow in any
> specific addresses in that range that I want to have access to my services.
> So far that's worked for the last 2.5 years or so....
> 
> ~Jeff
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