[olug] Cox and Web Servers

[David Walker]

You should be able to register with a dns forwarding service somewhere
set up www.example.com to point to the forwarding service and have it redirect 
to www1.example.com:8000 which is your machine.

In fact I think you can do this with dyndns.org's webhop service.
http://support.dyndns.org/guides/portredirect.php

On Tuesday 08 October 2002 04:23 pm, (Via wrote:
> Tell Apache to listen on a port other than "80" for connections.
>
> When I first signed up with COX, I went round and round with them about
> this very issue.  I spoke to a number of individuals above the "phone
> techs" and was met with stony silence.
>
> I offered to let them put a traffic shaper on my account and they still
> would
> not budge.  It was a hopeless endeavor.  I wanted to work with them; they
> wanted
> to milk me for more money.
>
> In the end, I told Apache to listen on an obscure port and, if they knew,
> they
> never bothered me.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William E. Kempf [mailto:williamkempf at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 3:29 PM
> To: olug at olug.org
> Subject: [olug] Cox and Web Servers
>
>
> How does everyone else work around Cox blocking port 80?  Specifically, is
> there some other port you'd recommend running on instead, and is there some
> service similar to dyndns that would map an URL transparently to this
> alternate port?  Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but it seems like such a
> service could be provided.  If not, short of paying Cox the ridiculous fees
> they want for a business connection, which this isn't, is there any other
> way to get Cox to open the port up, such as complaining to the right
> individual about how this is a terrible business practice on their part.
> And lastly, if there's no palatable answer to any of these questions, is
> there an alternative high speed Internet provider that doesn't block ports
> and sits in the same general price range as Cox?
>
> Bill Kempf
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