RE: [cobalt-users] re Code Red Storm (Bradley Caricofe)

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On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Dean Hall wrote:

> >> I think many isp's are going to crack down on users 
> >> breaking service agreements and running private servers.
> 
> If I fire up apache (or Personal Web Server or IIS) on my 
> win2k box at home (on @home) and allow pages to be served 
> to the internet, I've just become a server.

Round here the cable folk tend to scan their network for activity
on port 80.  I have some friends who have been discovered...the
provider's reaction to the discovery ranges from a polit "ya gotta stop
that" to a visit from the technician for a disconnect at the pole.

They are also getting wise to the anon FTP sites that there customers
have up (g).

One of the techs told me that when they recieve complaints from an area
ref problems...one of the first actions is to look for web and ftp servers
in that area's block of ip's.  He also allowed that the people least
likely to be discovered are the ones that live in the outskirts...since
there are fewer customers in that area, there are less likely to be
complaints about mysterious bandwidth hogs.

As with many providers, they don't get excited until something crops up
that might disturb their revenue stream.

Thom

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