Re: [Cooker] ssh: end of discussion: MS make the right decision ?

[Ron Stodden]

Ben Reser wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 12:41:33PM +1100, Ron Stodden wrote:
> > One good reason is that to do so would violate the service contract
> > of people with machines connected to the internet via a residential
> > service cable modem.  If the cable company discovers you are running
> > a server (and they do this by regular port scans, not by traffic
> > analysis) they will cancel your service contract.
> 
> I don't think the cable companies care about ssh.  I think they care a lot more
> about anonymous ftp and http servers.
> 
> For example the Acceptable Use Policy of @Home
> (http://www.home.com/support/aup/) only prohibits the following servers:
> * NNTP
> * MAIL e.g. SMTP
> * HTTP
> * FTP
> * DHCP
> * "mult-user interactive forums"
> * "host shell accounts"

What are telnet, rsh and ssh if not host shell accounts?

> Furthermore, @Home says in the AUP that they don't do scans for violations of
> their policy at all but they do reserve the right to do so.

Such scanning is regular and constant with optushome (which is
excite@home) here in Australia.  What's more, it emanates from a US
@home IP address, so, yes, they are port scanning.  They have to in
order to make sure that precedents to violations of their AUP cannot
be established.

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Regards,

Ron. [AU]