[JDEV] How is aol blocking ?

[Ulrich Eck]

i don't think they're blocking IP-Addresses,
cause I run a jabber-server with a few people registered to it
and our AIM-Transport doesn't work since a few day now.

Ulrich Eck

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Smith" <dizzyd at dizzyd.com>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 5:58 AM
Subject: Re: [JDEV] How is aol blocking ?


> No, they're blocking IP addresses..as far as i know.
>
> Diz
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:44:50PM -0800, Bill Ataras wrote:
> > How is aol blocking? I can see blocking everything from jabber.com. But
> > blocking 100's or 1000's of IP addresses? No. So they're changing the
> > protocol. But how can they do this such that their legit aim client
survives
> > and libfaim dies? Are they sending native code to execute in their aim
> > client? How can they tell libfaim is talking to them and not their own
aim
> > client?
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: jdev-admin at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-admin at jabber.org]On Behalf Of
> > > Jens Alfke
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 2:04 PM
> > > To: jdev at jabber.org
> > > Subject: Re: [JDEV] why the new version of the AIM Transport is
> > > stillbeing rejected by AOL?
> > >
> > >
> > > Dixon Canario <dixtigger at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Anyone Knows why the new version of the AIM Transport is
> > > > sending this message isn't this suppose to be fixed or is
> > > > aol now doing to Jabber.org the same that they did to
> > > > Odigo.com ???
> > >
> > > The friendly folks at AOL late last week started blocking libfaim
(used in
> > > gaim and Fire as well as presumably the Jabber AIM transport).
> > >
> > > Top of tree gaim sources (at sourceforge.net) generally have the
latest
> > > workarounds. You'll have to dig into the oscar subtree, most
> > > likely. Last I
> > > heard there was a new block added yesterday but as of this
> > > morning gaim had
> > > a workaround. This tit-for-tat cycle is likely to continue since AOL
has
> > > infinite resources to throw at it and no more reason to be interested
in
> > > openness (courtesy of the FCC).
> > >
> > > "ALL YOUR BUDDY ARE BELONG TO US"  --AOL
> > >
> > > --Jens
> > >
> > >
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