on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 01:56:57AM +0000, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > >>>On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:35:27PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > >>>>Philipp Schulte wrote: > >>>>>But what kind of pressure can $your_provider put on a portscanner > >>>>>from $evil_provider? > >>>> > >>>>Domain-level blocking of...mail, news, DNS.... > [...] > >If you say that portscanning isn't necessariy evil, how can you > >suggest "Domain-level blocking of...mail, news, DNS...."? > > Hmm. You asked "what kind of pressure can [my provider] put on [evil > guy's provider]", and Karsten answered - that is indeed the sort of > pressure one provider can put on another (RBL [1], UDP [2], etc.). Your > question wasn't about what kind of pressure providers *should* put on > each other, or about portscanning in particular, and I didn't read the > answer that way.
Bingo. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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