On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, Matthew Dalton generated:
>When Optus says 'no servers', does this mean 'no servers for use by the
>outside world' or does it mean 'no servers for use by your internal lan'
>(ie masquerading)... or perhaps both?
Another question: what about apps like icq, irc, that obviously are bound
to ports and people connect to them from the outside world? If I were
to dcc a file to someone else is that considered serving? If I ran
a freenet server, is that considered serving? I would imagine that
they'd say "oh, http and ftp and smtp and so on are services, but icq
and irc aren't", but you can easily set up a fileserver in irc using
eggdrop and other f-serve irc bots.
Is napster considered a server? Seti@Home? Are you even allowed to set
up a VPN between other friends on or outside of Optus?
I think that the Optus@Home people should really sit down and rethink
their AUP, in regards to what a service is. If they're trying to stop
warez sitez on their network, then as Jamie suggested, monitoring
upstream bandwidth is a much better method than randomly portscanning
hoping to catch people out.
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jamesw
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