Daniel V. Reinhardt wrote:
ISP's should be made responsible and accountable for what their users do. They
hold the rights to the IP Space in use at the time, and such any traffic that
goes over it should be logged for later analysis by authorities if a user is
found to be doing something illegal. If I know an ISP openly allows their users
to do anything they wanted then I will block all traffic from that ISP at my
firewalls, so that they cannot do any harm to my network. I block entire
nations from accessing several services on my network here at home. I also
block individual IP's from suspected people as well. If I see no traffic from
those IP's then I unblock them so that a legitimate user can access my network.
So by that logic, the backbone carriers should also monitor the ISPs
traffic, and be held responsible for whatever illegal ISP traffic there
may be.
How's about we just switch off the internet? That'll solve all of those
problems. :)
OTOH, IMO _everything_ should be encrypted so even deep packet
inspection will yield nothing of use. Analyze that. ;)
Why should home users get business class services at a fraction of the cost? It
is quite ignorant to think that. Are you upset that you live in Europe where
bandwidth caps are rather small compared to ISP's in the US? Would you expect
the same service for bandwidth that a business class user gets for a cost at a
residential price? If you answer yes then you simply live in a dream world.
Actually, at least here in UK, very few ISPs actually have bandwidth
caps (except for mobile network broadband), and those that do usually
only traffic shape those who exceed the default bandwidth during peak
hours down to a slower speed. It sounds like you're the one upset that
you're getting ripped off. In virtually all cases there are no
restrictions on what services you can run on your connection. Of course,
in the vast majority of cases, the IP addresses are dynamic, but unless
you reboot your modem, they don't change anyway.
As I mentioned before, if they really feel that blocking port 25 blocks spam,
then a simple phone call should unblock this.
A simple phone call requesting a business class internet account and line will
also suffice if they want full control over their ports.
Meanwhile, most of us are happy with the "it just works" option.
If I was an ISP all in bound connections to residential IP's would be denied.
Hey, it's OK - we're glad you're not. :)
Gordan
