I can reach that site from Qwest. On your SQL Server comparison chart, MySQL now has stored procedures using myperl. Saw the link to it on Slashdot a few days ago. I think logins for MySQL are restricted based on entries in the mysql db that controls hosts/db/permissions. > You got me how or why, but I can reach port 80 on my system from outside > the @Home service. > Would others outside of @Home care to test this? (Just in case the > hosting service I shell to is somehow within @Home's domain.) > http://wokan.home.dhs.org/ > > > [...] > > > 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.... > > That may have worked in the past, but from what I've seen, all access to > > ports 80 and 25 is blocked coming into their network, not just to specific > > hosts. Port 80 to my system is definitely blocked, even though I definitely > > had nothing running there. Same on a couple of others locally. If they just > > shut it off at the edge(s) of their network, they don't have to bother with > > scanning anymore. I'm not sure if this is a Cox or an @Home initiative. > > - Bob