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Re: Level3 routing issues?

  • From: Avleen Vig
  • Date: Sat Jan 25 16:58:12 2003

On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 05:08:22PM +0000, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> > Also; everyone who just posted to this list made it abundantly clear that
> > they don't have a firewall in front of at least one MS SQL server on their
> > network. Should you really have port 1433/4 open to the world? Would you
> > do this with a MySql server?
> 
> Yes, thats bad.. people should be more clueful than they are, I blame folks
> being cheap, having staff who are clueless, low quality equipment, this is the
> market we're in. 

The market we are in was specifically bred by Microsoft in the 90's when
they claimed Windows was so eay to use, anyone could admin it.
They've since changed their tune, but the damage has been done and
continues to be done like last night :(