North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Providers removing blocks on port 135?
> Why do you get to decide that, I can't, from a hotel room, call my ISP and > put up a web server on my dialup connection so someone behind a firewall > can retrieve a document I desperately need to get to them? Why > _SHOULDN'T_ > I run a web server to do this over a dialup connection? Why do you get > to dictate to _ANYONE_ what things they can and can't do with their most > portable internet access? How can you say that it is negligent to refuse > to DOS your customers unless they request it? (blocking traffic to me > that I want is every bit as much a denial of service as flooding my link). The distinction may be blurrier these days, but there *is* a difference between networking and internetworking. Whereas I'd agree that interconnections between networks be unencumbered to the greatest degree possible, the administrator of a network can be slightly more draconian in order to keep the network running smoothly. This statement applies, IMHO, to any provider who sells service to individual users. It may be a huge wide area dialup network, but it's still a network, in which the average customer is not a professional network administrator but rather a user of indeterminate knowledge level. Now, if as an ISP you operate an internetwork ("network of networks") and a network of users, the challenge is obviously how do you draw the distinction between user/customers and network/customers. I think it's do-able (DHCP being one criteria that comes to mind), but there there are a lot of permutations to consider.
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