[135] in Resnet-Forum
Re: Student access to internet from Res Nets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Updegrove)
Tue Feb 1 19:16:39 1994
To: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 18:58:29 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <01H8C6EEZBYA00569V@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu> from "Joe Palmieri" at Jan 31, 94 04:03:34 pm
From: danu@dccs.upenn.edu (Dan Updegrove)
Joe Palmieri of Oberlin writes:
> >From microcomputers in faculty/staff offices we allow direct access to
> the internet via telnet, gopher, mosaic
>
> >From public equipment (e.g., computer labs), we allow access only to
> local servers and local host computers, so a user can only telnet
> to other sites by logging onto a local host, not from a microcomputer
> directly.
>
> I would like to know the kind of access other institutions allow to
> the internet from residence hall room microcomputers:
> Only through a local host computer?
> Direct ethernet access from microcomputers?
> Ethernet access from microcomputers only with some kind of
> authentication - and if so, what kind of authentication?
At the University of Pennsylvania our ResNet policy mirrors our student
lab policy: the machine is assumed to be in use by a bona fide Penn
person, so open access to the Internet is allowed. For telnet, this
isn't much of an issue, it seeme to me, but for e.g. FTP, Gopher, and
Mosaic, requiring a prior local host access prohibits use of the vastly
superior desktop GUI interfaces. It would be hard to sell dorm networking
in 1994 without including Mosaic in the bundle, no? (I should mention that
our ResNet is ethernet only; no asynch or LocalTalk.)
Dan Updegrove
Associate Vice Provost
