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Re: Napster & other bandwidth hogs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Tucker)
Mon Jan 24 15:38:23 2000

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:30:59 -0500 (EST)
From: Ryan Tucker <rtucker@netacc.net>
To: Ryan Bek <rbek@gborocollege.edu>
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The data port is set in the user config... however, Napster's servers seem
to be within the 208.178.175.128/29 block.

There is a Napster FAQ at http://napster.cjb.net/ which could be
useful... there's also a protocol specification wandering around, but I
can't find it any more.  -rt

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Ryan Tucker <rtucker@netacc.net>                 Unix Systems Administrator
NetAccess, Inc.                                      Phone: +1 716 756-5596
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Ryan Bek wrote:

> 
> Hello all -
> 
> I (and I presume many others) have had concerns brought to us about the 
> bandwidth hogging apps & services, like Napster Music Community.  As many have 
> discovered, applications such as these can consume a good deal of a broadband 
> connection, as users can serve up files from their own machines, subverting 
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