[TriLUG] Port 25 blocked

[Michael Thompson]

Will this be available in the Greenville area as well?  Actually, I live
in Farmville, my TWC/RR connection has been absolutely awesome for the 3
years I've had it, but I'm thinking an extra line to run some small
servers on would be nice...  :)

--mike

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 14:47, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
> Once again, Good News from Intrex.Net!  :)
> 
> We're also rolling out the 3M/368k DSL service, and would be glad to 
> have you (and other TriLUGers bit by the same problem) as a customer.  
> We have worked up a special package available only to TriLUG members, 
> specifically to address this problem.  The service goes something like this:
> 3Mbit / 384Kbit - $54.99 / month with a blocked dynamic IP address (no 
> servers, or business customers)
> Residential Static IP address - $5 (good for VPN, remote management, etc)
> Unblocked Static IP address - $10 (good for hosting servers, mail, dns, 
> web, etc)
> Total cost for what you were expecting from BellSouth, $64.99 / month.  
> 3 Megabits download, 384Kilobits upload, and the freedom to run what 
> ever servers you'd like.
> 
> We are not normally going to offer an unblocked IP address to 
> residential customers.  Non-TriLUG members, to get the same benefit, 
> would have to subscribe to the business class service (which we will 
> sell you on a residential line, by the way).  The business class service 
> will be a bit more expensive, but comes with a wide-open static IP 
> address.  It will still be significantly cheaper than the BellSouth 
> business class service.
> 
> We're also offering two other slower DSL services, including a budget 
> 256Kbit / 128Kbit service for $34.99 / month, as well as a standard 
> 1.5Mbit / 256Kbit service for $49.99 / month.  The same static IP 
> address layouts apply for these services, as well as the option to get 
> an unblocked static IP address for only $10 / month.
> 
> If anyone has any questions about the new services, or the other Intrex 
> TriLUG discounts, feel free to give me a call at our offices (919) 
> 573-5488 x102.
> 
> Aaron S. Joyner
> System Administrator
> Intrex.Net Internet Services
> 
> Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
> >Well,
> >    Bellsouth suckered me into upgrading to thier extreme package and
> >unbenknownst to me they are blocking incoming and outgoing ports 25,
> >139 and a few other odd ones.  I could care less about samba, but I'm
> >more worried about mail.
> >    Has anyone on the list had to work around a closed port 25, and how
> >did you do it.  I've already looked into MOXY since I have access to
> >several servers, but I don't want to create my personal accounts on
> >these machines.  So I could switch sendmail to listen on port 26 and
> >have a different machine mail proxy the messages to me.
> >   Another thought I had was to setup some sort of mail collection server
> >that received *@domain.com and put it into a spool file that I pop'd
> >into, pulled down and fed to sendmail or procmail.
> >   Does anyone else have any other suggestions, what has worked best for
> >others?
> >
> >TIA
> >Steve
> >  
> >
-- 
Michael Thompson <thompson at easternrad.com>
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