MYSQL Servers on Comcast?

[chilly8@hotmail.com]

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I run an small online media company out of Australia, and I run a
bulletin board, using phpBB, which requires MySQL to run. I was being
bangled on for about 40 minutes today from a Comcast cable modem in
Maryland, to the port that I have MySQL running on. I Googled that
port and found that connect attempts come from infected MySQL servers
that have "MySQL Bot", that scan other machines on port 3306 for MySQL
databases with common passwords.

I thought that running a MySQL database server on any Comcast account
was outright against the rules, but the probes from that Comcast cable
modem in Maryland can only come from an infected MySQL server running
on that machine. With all the talk of Comcast terminating bandwidth
hogs, you would think that Comcast would be looking for people running
bandwidth-guzzling servers, such as MySQL servers.

[Bit Twister]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:52:15 -0700, chilly8@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> I thought that running a MySQL database server on any Comcast account
> was outright against the rules,

If you mean a Residential customer with servers open to internet users,
then I'll go along with that statement.

> but the probes from that Comcast cable
> modem in Maryland can only come from an infected MySQL server running
> on that machine. With all the talk of Comcast terminating bandwidth
> hogs, you would think that Comcast would be looking for people running
> bandwidth-guzzling servers, such as MySQL servers.

Heheheh, as long as comcast has those low up load speed, they are not
the bandwidth-guzzlers you are implying. :)