[71329] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Default" Internet Service (was: Re: Points on your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Jun 12 21:58:51 2004
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 18:58:18 -0700
To: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> One could imagine changing the paradigm (never easy) so that
> the normal Internet service was proxied for common applications
> and NAT'ed for everything else... This wouldn't eliminate all the
> problems, but would dramatically cut down the incident rate.
>
> If a site wants wide-open access, just give it to them. If that turns
> out to cause operational problems (due to open mail proxies, spam
> origination, etc), then put 'em back behind the relays.
guilty until proven innocent, eh? thanks mr ashcroft.
randy
