Re: "TCP Port Lock-down" & Free-speech @ UCB

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:34:45AM -0700, Mike Hunter wrote:
>
> The above seems to imply that I need to register with somebody if I set up
> a web server on a machine I administer...looks like I'm in big trouble :)
> I don't know of any entity that I could send such a request *to*.
>
> I have a feeling this person wrote what they wrote in response to a
> situation in a department somewhere.

Some departments are already slipping down the corporate firewall slope.

The policy makers here in the Computer Science department now require us
to register web, email, and ftp servers; otherwise that inbound traffic
is blocked by their firewall.

-- 
Mike Howard - mhoward@cs.berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley Computer Science Division
 SysAdmin - Clustered Computing Team
   (510)643-8046  -  505 Soda Hall
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