[olug] Qwest and IP assignment

[Will Langford]

>
> > I highly doubt that Qwest would NAT all of it's users... thereby not
> > allowing them to run ANY public services.
>
> See my previous e-mail in this thread.  That is exactly what Qwest
> Choice does on their Cable Modem service.  You can generally request a
> static NAT be setup for you for the purpose of remote access, but you
> will still have your common server ports (80, 443, 21, etc) blocked.
> To get those unblocked, you have to get a business account, which
> costs more money and comes with an ugly bandwidth cap for upstream.
>

Wow.  I can guess marketing it as a protective feature... or... perhaps just
to reduce bot crap... or...... just... wow.

I do recall your earlier thread, I was just in disbelief (as top of this
quote would imply heh).

Sounds like they'll need to setup some ssh tunnels or a vpn or something
then.

Wow.

-Will