I think perhaps you missed what I was saying. :)

Cable America gives you a local only IP.  ie.. 192.168.0.X style
addressing unless you pay for a static IP which they bind to the MAC
address of your NIC.  Obviously if you have a 192.168 address the rest of
the internet cannot connect to it regardless of DNS service. =)

Troy

On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, David P. Schwartz wrote:

> Naa, if  you don't have a static IP then you can use a dynamic DNS service.  One I'm familiar with is at http://www.dynu.com/  They have a
> linux client you can use.  This is a service that maintains redirection tables for domain names, and a client that runs on your system
> pings it periodically.  The server grabs the IP from the ping and updates the pointers if it changes.  The free services provide
> subdomains (eg., myserver.dynu.com), and offer an upgrade to allow you to use your own domain name.  Another one that was mentioned here
> is http://www.zoneedit.com/; they offer a perl script for use in Linux environments.  Under Windows, the one I prefer is
> http://www.dns2go.com/ .
>
> You can set your server to watch on whatever port you want.  If you have a firewall or router (like a Cisco 675/8 modem), you'll probably
> need to enable the port(s) you want other than port 80.  NOTE: this can make it appear that the ISP is blocking the ports, when in fact
> the block is on your end.
>
> You could also set up a basic web server on port 80 then load up some pages that allow directory browsing, which would accomplish about
> the same thing as an FTP server.  But I'd definitely provide a login screen for such a method!
>
> -David Schwartz
>
> Troy wrote:
>
> > Are you SURe its cable america?  I have cable america and I have nothing
> > blocked on my cable modem.
> >
> > By default cable america gives you local only addressing via DHCP from the
> > cable modem.  If you do not hve a static ip then you cannot setup any
> > services for people to connect in whether it be ftp or otherwise.
> >
> > Troy Moniz
> >
> > On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, John W wrote:
> >
> > >   I am wanting to setup an FTP server on my box to transfer files between
> > > myself and a few friends as my provider "Cableamerica" finds it neccesary to
> > > block Gnutella clients wether they be windows or Linux based. I have never
> > > really setup FTP services on Linux before and would like some opinions in
> > > regards to ease of configuration and general setup issues, perhaps a
> > > preffered server? I have Mandrake 8.1 installed and I know it has ProFTPd and
> > > perhaps one or two other FTP servers available on the CD's. I plan to set the
> > > accounts with authorization and not use any anonymous logins to try and offer
> > > as much security as possible.
> > >
> > >  TIA,
> > >
> > > John Wheat
>
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