Re: [Cooker] ssh

[James Sutherland]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Ron Stodden wrote:

> Bryan Whitehead wrote:
> 
> > It's much more simpler than doing a stupid port scan of all your
> > customers...
> 
> Agreed, but it is a form of censorship, so will/should attract
> political interest.  Should not any packet addressed to you be
> delivered to you?  As a matter of principle and ethics?
> 
> But I still think low volume access to these servers should be
> permitted.

That's the policy my cable co runs, more or less: no "public" servers (no
anon-FTP etc), but SSH, FTP (users only), password-protected WWW etc is
fine. Seems reasonable, IMO.


James.