[wplug] vsftpd redhat 9 (rh9)

[Henry Umansky]

I work for the University's CSSD department, they will not "freak" out if 
you have a server running.  However they will cut you off if your server is 
taking up 17%, or so, of their bandwidth (true story, someone was running 
all kinds of file sharing services like Kazaa, Gnutella, etc).  You are 
allowed to have a server running.  Occasionally they will monitor yours and 
other ports, regardless of whether its a server or not, to see if internet 
traffic has increased and your computer possibly compromised.

-Henry

--On Thursday, May 22, 2003 8:56 AM -0400 John Harrold <jmh17+ at pitt.edu> 
wrote:r

> Sometime in May Doug Green assaulted the keyboard and produced:
>
>| Hey-
>| I use SSH, and have had no problems. I heard a rumor that the
>| University will do occasional port-scans on assigned IPs, and will
>| freak out (ie: disable your IP) if you have any "servers" running. I'm
>| not sure what they consider to be OK or not, so I've always stuck with
>| SSH.
>| Doug
>
> i normally use ssh and scp also, but people need to connect from the
> universities windows machines which all seem to have an ftp client
> installed. i don't think the university has done anything. we've been
> running servers (web, ssh, ftp, mail, etc.) for years without any problem.
> i'm pretty sure it's something i've misconfigured.
>
>
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