[43842] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [SOT Rant] Non-hostile probes / opt-in/out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Thomason)
Fri Oct 26 15:04:30 2001
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:50:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: James Thomason <james@divide.org>
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
Cc: Mike Batchelor <mikebat@tmcs.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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PING www.army.mil (140.183.234.10): 56 data bytes
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2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
Am I a terrorist now too?
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
>
> 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
> --
> [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]
>
>
