[118662] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DMCA takedowns of networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Mon Oct 26 10:46:07 2009
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: bjohnson@drtel.com (Brian Johnson)
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:45:09 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <29A54911243620478FF59F00EBB12F4701A61285@ex01.drtel.lan> from
"Brian Johnson" at Oct 26, 2009 09:40:35 AM
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> > > So why are we having this discussion?
> >
> > Because it appears that HE took down non-infringing sites?
> >
> > Excuse me for stating the obvious. :-)
> >
> > ... JG
> > --
> > Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI -
>
> On the technical side of this question...
>
> Let's say that a customer is doing virtual hosting. So they have a bunch
> of sites (Let's say hundreds) on a single IP address. Given that one of
> the sites is misbehaving (use your own definition), how would a provider
> block the one site, without blocking others that share the same IP
> address, without looking at every port 80 request and parsing for the
> header for the URL?
>
> Is there a better solution that doesn't require intrusive parsing?
Sure. Tell the hoster they've got to shut it down, or else lose their
connectivity.
Sometimes it can be both simple *and* obvious.
... JG
--
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
