[51324] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How does this help?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Aug 23 08:40:43 2002
To: blitz <blitz@macronet.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Aug 2002 18:11:14 EDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 08:40:10 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 18:11:14 EDT, blitz <blitz@macronet.net> said:
> Wouldn't legitimate users as well find themselves in that honeypot, and
> thus be blocked, achieving what the RIAA wanted in the first place, to
> disrupt GNUtella services?
I believe the original honeypot was to be triggered if they caught somebody
poking around the Gnutella and then dropping suspicious packets on their
network. "Legitimate users" wouldn't find themselves in that situation
because they'd only contact the Gnutella side of things and wouldn't be
probing the Gnutella host via other means....
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Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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