I can understand blocking smtp, and perhaps vpn, but why would you block ssh?
The (relatively few) people who are aware of ssh, are mostly going to use it
to access the command line anyway. It's not going to cause a security or
bandwidth problem. Well, unless you scp all thier files to another server,
but then, that would suggest that you could get to their files in the first
place, and that's far more serious.
Tim B.
On Saturday 26 July 2008 17:59:04 Samuel Penn wrote:
> On Friday 25 July 2008 22:47:04 Paul Tansom wrote:
> > Does anyone have any experience of using WiFi hotspots in places like
> > Wetherspoons and McDonalds? I'll be in Dorset for a week shortly and may
> > need to make use of them, so was wondering whether they restrict traffic
> > to just web and mail, or whether ssh is usable. I could ask direct, but
> > have a suspicion they wouldn't have a clue what I was talking about!
>
> Tried to use WiFi in a hotel up in Yorkshire, and they seemed to
> block pretty much anything useful (VPN, ssh and XMPP were all
> blocked). The only thing I could find that worked was HTTP/HTTPS.
>
> They didn't have a clue what I was talking about, but did refund
> me the cost of using it.
>
> Other hotels have just worked fine with all of the above.
>
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