rosen@tristar.samsung.com (MFHorn) (03/20/91)
Archive-name: ftp/politics/samsung-nsf-gifs/1991-03-19 Original-posting-by: rosen@tristar.samsung.com (MFHorn) Original-subject: Re: FTP sites... Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) In article <1991Mar19.025528.24214@nemo.nemo.nemo.nemo> nemo@nemo.nemo.nemo.nemo (Nemo) writes: > Have you ever seen what happens to > a site after it's advertised as having pictures? It gets swamped by > every pinhead ftp'ing in and doing "mget *" After the network bandwidth > goes to shit, and the machine crashes a few times, the sys admin takes > the pictures off. Or disallows anon ftp. Not always. I had about 50 MB of x-rated pictures, and let 20 people ftp at once. There was no increase in load average, or in the collision rate on the subnet the machine is on. But the National Science Foundation (NSF) has rules regarding how their network backbone (the NSFnet) is used. And since almost every Internet computer in the world crosses the NSFnet backbone to get to every other Internet computer in the world, _their_ policies were being violated. Someone from the NSF gave me a call and said to take the pictures off or my site would not be allowed access to the NSFnet (and hence 95% or more of the Internet). They don't seem to mind 'non-pornographic' pictures. I've got about 1300 pictures (68 MB) available. 500 - 800 pictures are downloaded every day. -- Andy Rosen | rosen@samsung.com | "I got this guitar Samsung Software America | ...!uunet!samsung!rosen | and I learned how One Corporate Drive | (508) 685-7200 | to make it talk" Andover, MA 01810 | | -Thunder Road