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First post here.
I've recently moved into an area where there's only one ISP. I had a file server running on my Windows based machine (FileRun) which was working seamlessly. I had configured a port forwarding on my router for port 8000 and configured my Windows Firewall to accept incoming connections from this port. Everything worked.
Ever since I moved to the new ISP, my file server has stopped working. I did some fidgeting and found out all my incoming ports are blocked. I rechecked my firewall and router settings, all seems OK. So I started pointed finger to my ISP that it might be blocking all incomings.
I've written a detailed email to their technical support and this is what they reply:
Kindly be informed that services are connected on GPON platform where broadband session is normally terminated on ONT & devices will get private IP’s & not public IP. If you want public IP on your device than you should purchase static IP from DU(we will configure port4 of the ONT in Bridge mode ).
This is too technical for me. I merely asked them if they were blocking the incoming ports or not, and that my server stopped working after I subscribed their service.
Can anyone help interpret the ISP's response as to what it means? I know they're forcing me to purchase their static IP service, but thats not my problem. I just need an incoming port. I use DuckDNS to resolve my IP.
Thanks
Thanks very much. Just as an additional question, would it be considered making my system more approachable by perpetrators if I'm assigning static public IP to my system? I use the plain simple Windows Firewall. – Faraz Azhar – 2017-01-18T16:14:59.213