Sympatico AUP

[Robert Brockway]

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> > *	Causing an Internet host to become unable to effectively service
> > requests from other hosts. 
> Hmm, that's pretty badly worded.  Does this mean if I have a 5Mbit

I agree it is badly worded.  Yet another example of someone trying to make 
a statement simpler by avoiding the correct technical term and ultimately 
just making their statemess less clear but no more simple.

> connection and connect to an ftp server that has a 1.5Mbit link and
> download a file, thereby taking all the bandwidth, that I am violating
> the user agreement?  It would make it harder for that ftp server to
> start serving someone else (although it should after a short delay start
> a session with someone else and start sharing the available bandwidth).

In this case you aren't launching a Denial of Service attack (DoS).  
Without any other interference you would only be able to DoS the server if 
the server's TCP stack was totally broken.



> > *	Running and/or hosting Server Applications including but not limited
> > to HTTP, FTP, POP, SMTP, Proxy/SOCKS, NNTP, ) 
> Rogers certainly says the same.

Yes, it seems they do accept ssh as a legitimate service to run for access 
to ones own hosts.

> > *	Forging any part of the TCP/IP packet headers in any way. 
> Hmm, I wonder what that means.  Probably not a problem in general.

They are prohibiting spoofing.  If they are an end-user ISP it is easy 
enough for them to deal effectively with spoof attempts (both ways) by 
dropping them at the border router.

Interestingly they are also prohibiting NATting.  I wonder if that is 
deliberate :)

> If you want less restrictions, you have to go with a smaller, less
> beurocratic ISP (typically DSL provider).

Exactly.  Like iStop was :)  There are others.

Rob

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