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Re: Vixie doing his part to make people upgrade (was:Re: Reasonswhy BIND

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Sat Feb 3 09:55:50 2001

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Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> Especially considering above.net:s adament stand on ORBS and their
> scanning.
> 
> Massive irony?

Nah, I don't think so. RoadRunner's security czar has said repeatedly
said that RR scans its customers for security holes. I don't see a problem
with that either.

Scanning the networks you are responsible for is one thing. Scanning an 
outside network, and not stopping when asked to stop on top of that, is 
another thing altogether.


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