[21212] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Sun Nov 8 02:08:55 1998
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 23:01:14 -0800
To: Adam Rothschild <asr@millburn.net>
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: TTSG <ttsg@ttsg.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811080026320.10079-100000@thuule.pair.com>
At 12:35 AM 11/8/98 -0500, Adam Rothschild wrote:
>> > The need for static IP comes from them wanting to run their own
web-server.
>> >
>> Not necessarily. I asked an ISP for a static IP for security
>> reasons. ("Trusted hosts" and stuff like that there)
>
>Yah, point well taken.
>
>Besides, AFAIK, @Home AUP expressly forbids users from offering web and
>ftp services of any sort off their boxen.
Unless they're doing contiuous port scans on all their IPs, they'll never
know. Besides, there's always the IP equivalent of dial-back <grin>.
>Of course, that's not to say that there are not pseudo-31337 w4r3z-kiddi3z
>out there who do so anyways...8-)
As I said <grin>
@HOME's business/operations model is NOT one I particularly like. Folks
should be free to run home servers. I'm thinking more along the lines of
"smart house" which has to have a server. A "smart house" could never exist
on the @home network. It's almost as bad as AOL. It stifles innovation.
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