This thread is insane. Why would you ever want to block telnet access to 
port 25. SMTP is a text based protocol thats a fact of life. Why don't you 
just bolt down your mailserver and be done with it.


At 01:32 AM 4/24/2002 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


>could you fingerprint the source port?
>
>-C
>
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=     | 0100111001101111011100110110010101111001
>Christopher Regenye |
>System Services     |  I know you believe you understand what you
>PR Newswire         |  think I said, but I am not sure you realize that
>christopher_regenye |  what you heard is not what I meant.
>      @prnewswire.com     |
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=     | 0111010000100000010110010110111101110101
>
>
>
>
>
>|--------+---------------------------->
>|        |          Clifford Thurber  |
>|        |          <cthurber@edisonsc|
>|        |          hools.com>        |
>|        |                            |
>|        |          04/10/02 10:56 AM |
>|        |                            |
>|--------+---------------------------->
> 
>  >------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
>   | 
>         |
>   |      To:     "Binaya D. Joshi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris 
> Lee                |
>   |       <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>         |
>   |      cc:     [EMAIL PROTECTED], (bcc: Christopher Regenye/PR 
> Newswire)|
>   |      Subject:     Re: blocking telnet to port 
> 25                             |
> 
>  >------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
>
>
>
>
>
>You can't block telnet to port 25 you can either block port 25 or port 23
>but thats it. SMTP is a mail protocol it does not care how the connection
>to the IP/port pair was established as long as it follows the SMTP
>protocol(i.e issues Helo, Mail From: Rcpt To: etc.)
>
>
>At 04:14 PM 4/10/2002 +0545, Binaya D. Joshi wrote:
> >blocking telnet to port 25 in mail server... huh ???
> >
> >    if so; may be this be the last mail u r be receiving :)
> >
> >
> >
> >B.D.Joshi
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Chris Lee wrote:
> >
> > > If you want mail to through, you can't.
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > > Sayed Peerzade wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I'm systems engineer in an ISP handling mail servers, i also handle
> > > > checkpoint.
> > > > pls tell me how to block telnet to port 25, keeping normal telnet to
> > > > perform normally on mail server (netscape messaging server running on
> > > > solaris OS))
> > > > u can tell me method to block either in checkpoint or on mail server
> > > > itself.
> > > > Thanks and regards.
> > > >
> > > > Sayed K.Peerzade.
> > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > Firewalls mailing list
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Firewalls mailing list
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
> > >
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >Firewalls mailing list
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
>
>_______________________________________________
>Firewalls mailing list
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>For Account Management (unsubscribe, get/change password, etc) Please go to:
>http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls

_______________________________________________
Firewalls mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
For Account Management (unsubscribe, get/change password, etc) Please go to:
http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls

Reply via email to