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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Mon Feb 5 07:05:42 2001

Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 13:02:15 +0100 (CET)
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On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:

> .. no good deed goes unpunished on nanog .. heh
>
> a tad sad and petty tho that a few people have moaned about abovenet doing
> this and no one has thanked them for looking out for them

I'm not saying that Above.net is doing a bad thing when they're scanning
their customers for vulnerable named version, I'm saying they're doing
something wrong when filtering ORBS.

> imho a great deal of customers are not on the right cert lists and not up
> to speed enough to realise they have a problem

Amen, dito with the open relay/spam problem.

No need to continue this thread, I think everybody knows where everybody
stands on the ORBS issue.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se



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