[120041] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Tue Dec 8 12:00:28 2009
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:59:20 +0000
In-Reply-To: <199FCDD1-9A96-4C6C-86B6-B8A4B0090A19@cs.columbia.edu> (Steven
Bellovin's message of "Mon\, 7 Dec 2009 21\:48\:25 -0500")
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> writes:
> It's why I run an ssh server on 443 somewhere -- and as needed, I
> ssh-tunnel http to a squid proxy, smtp, and as many IMAP/SSL connections
> as I really need...
me too, more or less. but steve, if we were only trying to build digital
infrastructure for people who know how to do that, then we'd all still be
using Usenet over modems. we're trying to build digital infrastructure for
all of humanity, and that means stuff like the above has to be unnecessary.
--
Paul Vixie
KI6YSY
