----- Original Message ----- From: "Hudak, Tyler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 8:56 AM Subject: CERT paper and AOL VPN?
> I tried to verify this over the weekend with no success. To do this, I > loaded ZoneAlarm on my test machine (running Windows 98) and configured it > to trust no one by default. I also shared my C: drive so something would be > open. I then installed AOL and gave the AOL programs access thru ZoneAlarm. > When AOL connected, I was assigned an IP address from the AOL address space > and looking through netstat, I saw that my file share was listening on the > AOL address. When I attempted to connect to my AOL address from another > machine and look at the shares, nothing happened. ZoneAlarm did not raise Just wondering, is the "another machine" also logged into AOL? The AOL connection does create a L2TP tunnel over whatever connection method you have (dialup or Internet), so off the top of my head, I would assume that the CERT paper was referring to other people on the AOL network, perhaps other people also logged in via their VPN tunnel. It's also possible that filesharing, specifically, is blocked by AOL. This would certainly be something AOL would do for it's users instead of relying on/forcing them to do it themselves. --K
