[61362] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fun new policy at AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Thu Aug 28 11:35:48 2003
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 18:31:31 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Matthew Crocker <matthew@crocker.com>
Cc: Roland Perry <nanog@internetpolicyagency.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <89081955-D962-11D7-A9DD-000A956885D4@crocker.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Matthew Crocker wrote:
>
> SMTP & DNS should be run through the servers provided by the ISP for
> the exact purpose. There is no valid reason for a dialup customer to
> go direct to root-servers.net and there is no reason why a dialup user
> should be sending mail directly to AOL, or any mail server for that
> matter (besides their host ISP)
>
...and there is no reason for dialup customer to have direct access to
any other port either,
they´ll just use the www-proxy and other ALG services from the ISP ?
This is a self-solving problem.
Pete
