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Re: Fun new policy at AOL
From: Matthew Crocker <matthew () crocker com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:04:09 -0400
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 11:31 AM, Petri Helenius wrote:
Matthew Crocker wrote:SMTP & DNS should be run through the servers provided by the ISP for the exact purpose. There is no valid reason for a dialup customer to go direct to root-servers.net and there is no reason why a dialup user should be sending mail directly to AOL, or any mail server for that matter (besides their host ISP)...and there is no reason for dialup customer to have direct access to any other port either,they´ll just use the www-proxy and other ALG services from the ISP ? This is a self-solving problem.
Technically no, There is no reason for a customer to have direct access to the net so long as the ISP can provide appropriate proxies for the services required. It gets complex, it gets hard to manage but it can be done. There is a stigma against proxing because of the early days when stale content was all over the place. Does a dynamically assigned dialup/DSL user even need a valid routable IP? For games? Maybe games should be more NAT friendly.
We do remove the filters for customers that have a valid need and show that they have a clue out it all works.
-Matt
Current thread:
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL, (continued)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Matthew Crocker (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Paul Vixie (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 29)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Paul Vixie (Aug 29)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Joseph McDonald (Aug 29)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Omachonu Ogali (Aug 29)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Bruce Pinsky (Aug 29)
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- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Omachonu Ogali (Aug 29)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Roland Perry (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Petri Helenius (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Matthew Crocker (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Petri Helenius (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Clayton Fiske (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Roland Perry (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Ray Wong (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Vadim Antonov (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Matthew Crocker (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Vadim Antonov (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Roland Perry (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Paul Vixie (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Stephen J. Wilcox (Aug 28)