On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Ricky Beam wrote:
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> As an aside, they also have/had agressive transparent web proxying in
> the network... everything on port 80 coming and going is/was cached.
> EVERYTHING.
Ugh. If bandwidth is a problem, charge them by the Gb and let them save
money by reducing their usage via the W3 cache.
> One could say this about SPAM in general. SMTP was designed as on open
> transport. Now we have to go around and board up the windows so no one
> can see inside.
SMTP wasn't designed to expect people to 'steal' another persons machine
and bandwidth as a third-party exploder.
> They aren't rewriting your packects; they just simply force you to connect
> to _their_ mail servers for incoming and outgoing mail.
Alan was suggesting that providers use transproxy to filter mail.
> >As far as broadband service goes, just give the damn users fixed IPs and
> >let the opt-in blacklists handle them.
>
> ARIN (and other registries) don't like "static IP" ISPs.
Thats not true. I'm quite familiar with what ARIN wants, and I've got more
then a few IP addresses under my belt (GFM1-ARIN). They basically want you
to have a single address per possible simultaneous system. For broadband
users, that would mean every user. For dialup with a typical 8:1
user:modem ratio, it's a little different.
> Besides, the
> provider wants to be able to charge a s***load for a static address even
> when their DHCP hardware already is configured to prefer reassigning the
> same address -- people have been known to have the same address for months
> even after prolonged down time.
Sounds like a problem in their business model.
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