Has anyone tried writing a fake napster server ?
It would be possible to create a perl script or something similar that
listened on the default napster ports, gave it the correct responses, and
tricked napster into thinking that it was connected to a real napster
server, when in fact it'd just be connected to a decoy.
My bet is that napster wouldn't try to use other ports etc as it would think
that it had a valid connection.... and users wouldn't be able to share
files, cause they'd just be connected to a perl script... problem solved.
Has anyone tried this sort of thing ?
Alex
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael T. Babcock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 24 November 2000 02:54
To: saint james
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: napster
saint james wrote:
> Bandwidth shaping software/hardware exists, the .EDU's
> found it was the only way to control Napster.
> Very expensive. With this you can deny, not by
> port/IP,
> but by application type, ie "napster". You can also
> control who (applications wise) gets the bandwidth and
> how much. Some .EDU's allowed a little bandwidth for
> Napster.
Other locations are cheap and smart and downloaded a copy of Linux for
free and configured the traffic control and quality of service features,
set up their ipchains to send napster related traffic through a lower
priority queue (by port) but not block it so that it doesn't change
ports. Napster can be made to feel like its running on a 2400 baud
modem all the time, or it can just get any available bandwidth with the
lowest priority (it never saturates the network).
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Michael T. Babcock (PGP: 0xBE6C1895)
http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/
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