[43839] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [SOT Rant] Non-hostile probes / opt-in/out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Fri Oct 26 14:53:41 2001
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:47:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: Mike Batchelor <mikebat@tmcs.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Mike Batchelor wrote:
> > <rant>
> > Digital Island is certainly not alone in their practice of
> > assuming an opt-in stance.
> I think you know that for an operation like Digital Island or Akamai, asking
> every network operator permission to probe is for all practical purposes,
> impossible. Insisting on opt-in is insisting on these companies going out
> of business, or not even starting up at all.
I wonder if Digital Island "probes" .mil sites.
-Dan
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