[ale] [OT] AT&T/UVerse going to carrier grade NAT?

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Scott Plante <splante at insightsys.com> writes:

> You could do that with an Amazon EC2 instance. It's free for the first year
> and pretty cheap after. You get a virtual Linux box and you can even get a
> static IP. You could set up ssh (or better, autossh) with port forwarding,
> then just go to your instance's IP (or name). You could probably set up
> OpenVPN on the instance too, and then connect from to it from both ends (home
> and wherever you are).

Except, of course, that most of the Amazon EC2 network block is on every
DNSBL around because spammers use EC2 hosts.  So EC2 is generally
useless if you want a mail server.

-derek
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