Re: Old (mis)informaton about BigPond Cable (was Re: [SLUG] OT: Optus to be unlimited pricing!)

[Scott Howard]

On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 11:40:23AM +1100, Gordon Rowell wrote:
> However, the "No servers" policy of Optus@Home would allow them to
> legitimately block SYN packets in the name of security. And then their
> cable system becomes useless (IMHO) - you can't even SSH into your home
> system, let alone run a web server, etc.

Nope, because doing so would break (non-passive) FTP, identd (which is
technically a server, but not really), ICQ, irc DCC, etc, etc...

My understanding is that the "no servers" policy is not there to stop
things like SSH, telnet, etc, but instead to stop people running FTP/web
sites, quake servers, etc.

  Scott.
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
unsubscribe in the text