Napster at MSU?

[Zac Cogswell]

At 06:31 PM 3/1/00 -0500, you wrote:
>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.

No, but you can scan every machine on all of MSU''s subnets for napster's 
default ports at various points during the day/night for a week - that 
should give an idea as to how many people run it....

There's also a huge discussion going on about this on slashdot right now.


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