[Ilugc] bsnl dataone billing snafus
- From: linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
- Date: Fri May 12 11:10:08 2006
R.Subramanian (RS) wrote:
IMO there are no reliable ISP billing solutions available till recently (or
even now) .
Few years ago, I was called to visit a isp (asia net) to device a reliable
billing system for them.
They had a billing solution ( some 24 online) purchased at a huge
Whoever designed 24online deserves to be shot..
Huge NAT'ted network of cablemodem connected PCs, little or no virus
filtering, very antique software (sendmail 8.9.3) installed by default..
probably rh 6.1 or something similar
And zero protection within our outside the lan against crackers, virus
attempts etc.. its like every PC in such a LAN can see all the cable ISP
connected PCs like a big network neighborhood on windows.
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