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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: ISPs as content-police or method-police
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 09:21:10 MST, Ehud Gavron said: > It is clear (to me) that customers who get a connection > to the net do NOT want that connection limited nor > censored. Unfortunately, it's NOT clear that this is the case. The average customer just THINKS they want something. The question of whether it's something actually reasonable to do is a different issue.... Remember - the *reason* this is a point worth discussing at *ALL* is because such a large percentage of customers don't have a CLUE - if (for instance) 98% of the shops had enough clue to close down open shares, we'd not be seeing so many scans for them. I suspect that if a large percentage of Tier 1/2 carriers actually filtered ports 137 through 139, we'd not be seeing anywhere near the amount of QAZ and similar activity. And as has been pointed out, you can ALWAYS punch a hole in the filter for customers who like to live risky, or they can find other ways to tunnel their packets. -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech Attachment:
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