[171910] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A simple proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri May 16 11:33:24 2014
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Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 11:27:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Petach" <mpetach@netflight.com>
> You want to stream a movie? No problem;
> the video player opens up a second data
> port back to a server next to the streaming
> box; its only purpose is to accept a socket,
> and send all bits received on it to /dev/null.
Congratulations, Matt, on coming up with a proposal that was *stylistically*
in keeping with the one from which you stole the idea for the title. :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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