Re: [Sheflug] Public access services

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Lowe <richlowe [at] btinternet.com> writes:

    >> "Craig Andrews" <craig [at] fishbot.org.uk> wrote:

    >> > Purposeful retention of IP addresses not allocated as such to
    >> > hi-speed customers

    Richard> of course, I could be wrong, but I can see no right
    Richard> thinking reason why you wouldnt want people running sshd
    Richard> and stuff like that.

I think they probably want the freedom to reallocate addresses and
stuff like that.  They want to try to arrange that people "timeshare"
IP addresses the way you "timeshare" a beach cottage.  They don't want
people "camping" on their scarce address space.

As for ssh being "hardly high bandwidth", my primary use of ssh is for
contacting various CVS servers!  I rarely actually type characters
(outside of my LAN) through it.  You just don't know what kind of
traffic is going through an ssh tunnel.

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