@home scanning RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] network scanning?

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, McNutt, Justin M. wrote:

> I guess they got burned with somebody running a high-volume news server
> somewhere, or they figure that's the highest-risk service.  Or they are
> being jealous, since news service is part of what they offer through @Home.

@Home regs on servers always seem to have pinpointed nntp, and I'm
guessing that this is because in the way back days, they thought this
would be their biggest bandwidth hog:
 
> I can't imagine that someone sucked up that much bandwidth, though, since
> upstream is clamped to ~256Kb (unless it was the downstream bandwidth they
> are concerned about or perhaps the fact that cable modem segments are shared
> and they're worried about fair use).

Remember that the notion of bandwidth suckage completely changed in the
age of Napster. :-)

jking

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