Re: What if it doesn't affect the ISP? (was Re: What do you wantyour ISP to block today?)

2003-08-31 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: > We're an ISP. I'm blocking 135 and the other netbios ports inbound on my > clients dial-up/dsl lines because if I didn't, the lines would be useless. Sunday morning posting. I'm blocking these ports OUTBOUND -- TO our clients. Their lines a

Re: What if it doesn't affect the ISP? (was Re: What do you wantyour ISP to block today?)

2003-08-31 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Matthew Palmer wrote: > dodgy behaviour (spoofed source addresses, for one). Yes, port 135 is a > known vector, and so is now, but they have their legitimate uses. If OK, here's an alternative viewpoint. We're an ISP. I'm blocking 135 and the other netbios ports inbo

Re: What if it doesn't affect the ISP? (was Re: What do you wantyour ISP to block today?)

2003-08-31 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Sean Donelan wrote: > The recurring theme is: I don't want my ISP to block anything I do, but > ISPs should block other people from doing things I don't think they > should do. That's about my position, I guess.There's a difference between naively blocking ports or screw