[79390] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: botted hosts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Tue Apr 5 11:43:37 2005
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 18:43:18 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <87psxatgi9.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Florian Weimer wrote:
>* Suresh Ramasubramanian:
>
>
>
>>Find them, isolate them into what some providers call a "walled
>>garden" - vlan them into their own segment from where all they can
>>access are antivirus / service pack downloads
>>
>>
>
>Service pack downloads? Do you expect ISPs to pirate Windows (or
>large parts thereof)? Or has Microsoft finally seen the light?
>
>
Walled garden is a term to describe selective external availability.
This does not violate the usual download license conditions because no
copy is made or stored at any time. The ISP can choose which external
services are made available to the infected parties.
Pete
