[53034] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vivien M.)
Sun Oct 27 21:35:48 2002
From: "Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 21:35:14 -0500
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20021027201706.06312aa0@127.0.0.1>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Christopher Schulte
> Sent: October 27, 2002 9:22 PM
> To: William Warren; nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps
>
> In a public press release dated August, they claim to have
> 1.8 million Internet customers. How that compares to the
> global pool of cable users, I cannot say.
One cable company I've done business here (Ontario, Canada) has over
500K subscribers, and I don't believe it has the largest number of cable
modems in the country. So you're probably talking around 1.5-2 million
cable modems north of the border. Then you have Europe (I think .nl has
decent cable modem penetration), Asia-Pacific, etc.
> It'll be interesting to see if att exports their filtering
> policies to the newly acquired customers. They'll want to
> support a uniform configuration across the whole network, I'm sure.
They apparently don't have a uniform configuration now; we have lots of
people using AT&T BI complaining about blocked port 80s and whatnot, and
yet we have some other AT&T BI users in different locations (but I think
both were formerly-@Home AT&T BI areas) who don't have any ports
blocked. Bizarre, I have to say.
Vivien
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Vivien M.
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Dynamic DNS Network Services
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