[SOT Rant] Non-hostile probes / opt-in/out

Fri Oct 26 18:47:56 UTC 2001

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Mike Batchelor wrote:
> > <rant>
> > 	Digital Island is certainly not alone in their practice of
> > assuming an opt-in stance.
> I think you know that for an operation like Digital Island or Akamai, asking
> every network operator permission to probe is for all practical purposes,
> impossible.  Insisting on opt-in is insisting on these companies going out
> of business, or not even starting up at all.

I wonder if Digital Island "probes" .mil sites.

-Dan
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