RE: Gnutella exposure/evaluation: Request for comments, brickbats, etc

[ROTTENBERG,HAL \(HP-USA,ex1\)]

> Gnutella may make a quantum change/paradigm shift in our system 
> administration environments.  

> = Metallica could sue MP3 and did....along with educational 

You meant to say Napster, right?  :)

<snip>

> An ounce of strategy is worth many pounds of tactics.  I like 
> to foment a wide-
> ranging discussion here about what the wider ramifications 
> are, how we all see 
> Gnutella's opportunities and hazards and how we are going to 
> live with it.  
> How do we even monitor it, much less throttle it?

Do look at the gnutella.org webpage for reference, but on top of that have a
look at http://www.surfy.com/page/nut.php3.  This page can do gnutella
searches and users can download files as normal HTTP traffic, so I beleive
you would have to monitor this a totally different way.  You may want to
simply block this site and others like it.

Hal Rottenberg                   | Hewlett-Packard
Technical Support Engineer       | Phone: +1-404-774-4041
Internet and System Security Lab | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Web: http://www.hp.com/security
-
[To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
"unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]