iptables questions

[Tyler Littlefield]

OK.
With a router set to static, and the IP as 10. That tells me its the isp
doing it. especially when the gateway is also a 10 address.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: <jheim at math.wisc.edu>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
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Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: iptables questions


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> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:46:34PM -0500, John Heim wrote:
> > Lots of
> > ISPs block some ports so you can't set up your own smtp server, for
> > example.  Maybe Tyler's ISP blocks all incoming connections by default
> > and allows only outgoing and existing connections.
> >
>
> I know, my former ISP blocked outgoing smtp, and what's even worse is
> that when they out-sourced their tech support, those people insisted
> that they didn't block any ports. I also have a friend who has some
> incoming ports blocked as well, so I'm familiar with the port blocking
> problem, though I've never heard those situations described as
> public or private ip addressing.
>
> > I can't believe an ISP would hand out 10.0.0/24 addresses. Hand out
> > private IP addresses and do NAT for every customer? Impossible (I
> > think). It may even be illegal.
> >
>
> I agree totally. However, Tyler insisted on several occasions in private
> messages that his ISP handed out 10.0.0/24 addresses to him, and I
> repeatedly kept telling him that it was either his modem or router
> that was doing that. As you said, for an ISP to be doing NAT for all
> its customers would be more costly then having a pool of dynamic
> public IPS to hand out.
>
> Greg
>
>
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