Napster at MSU?

[Jeremy Bowers]

From: "Zac Cogswell" <cogswell@msu.edu>


> At 05:50 PM 3/1/00 -0500, Jeremy Bowers wrote:
> >Unfortunately, we can't check.
>
> We could audit the network for Napster ports every couple hours for a few
> days and get data on how many people are running napster, and also scan
for
> DDOS tools :) Not like it would really help the problem that much because
> we still don't know how much bandwidth Napster is using, but it would be
> neat to know.

I tried that already in McDonel.  It looks the the encrypted hub blocks
everything that isn't coming to my computer, so I can't scan anything except
traffic coming only to my computer.

> Also, over spring break, if it is Napster, the bandwidth should go down,
> and if it was DDOS stuff, the bandwidth would remain high because the
> clients are mostly on solaris/linux servers (there are win9x clients, but
> they're not public)...

It seems the use drops when people leave... good point.

> Of course this is all just speculation and it could be some people running
> ftps, misconfigured hardware, etc..., but I hope it gets fixed soon,
> because over the last two weeks, it has got really bad ( I live in Akers).

And it's not getting better.