Re: [Sheflug] Public access services

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <nospam [at] ragingbull.com>]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Richard Lowe wrote:

> Not running any servers is more restrictive than it sounds.
> if you're a windows user, you probably wouldnt anyway.
> 
> but as an example. I run a caching DNS server. its behind the firewall.
> but it is server software....
> I sometimes run apache to play with some cgi stuff. also behind the
> firewall.

Well, not to mention httpd,... which many of us (most? all?) run, say, to
view documentation locally (at least I do)... Or does it not fall into the
'server' category?

> 
> It just seems like a very inexact way of saying what they want.
> no public servers, or capping your upstream, would seem to be a more
> effective way of doing it.
> 
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