[54912] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FW: Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflective
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Mon Jan 20 20:22:38 2003
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:22:03 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
To: Avleen Vig <lists-nanog@silverwraith.com>
Cc: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>,
Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>,
"nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu" <nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030120084623.D40624@guava.silverwraith.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Avleen Vig wrote:
> > Doesn't this stop kazaa/morpheus/gnutella/FTP/<some aim stuff like private
> > chats>? This is a problematic setup, and woudl require the cable modem
> > provider to maintain a quickly changing 'firewall' :( I understand the
> > want to do it, but I'm not sure its practical to see it happen based
> > solely on the hassle factor :( Hmm, security, "you gotta pay to play"
> > (Some famous man once said that I believe)
>
> Indeed it does break that. P2P clients: Mostly transfer illegal content.
> As much as a lot of people love using these, I'm sure most realise they're
> on borrowed time in their current state.
> And I'm sure that if they were gone tomorrow, I'm sure they'd be back in
> another fashion soon.
That may be, but its still a problem... I believe http and ftp also
transfer illegal content, should we shut them down? Email too? Often there
is illegal content in email. :(
> Ftp/HTTP etc I believe most cable providers currently block these anyway
> :-)
>
for FTP I was talking about non-passive data traffic.
