9 Mar
2000
9 Mar
'00
6:30 p.m.
Any operator trying to control which applications are used on their networks has either never learned, or already forgotten, the lesson of "fsp, NASA, and OZ." Precis: they (developers, users) can modify the application to use spread-spectrum style port numbers that constantly change throughout the life of a session, which makes it effectively impossible to filter using existing technology. Sean Doran has it right: be glad this is bulk TCP (fsp was UDP based), and turn on RED. Erik <fair@clock.org>