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Re: Level3 routing issues?

  • From: alex
  • Date: Mon Jan 27 16:19:42 2003 
> That's fine for a non-MS view of the world (admittedly, a view I prefer),
> but then you've got to allow TCP 138/139 to all the MS servers in your
> organisation (why couldn't they seperate auth from file sharing from...). 
> And then whatever protocols Outlook uses to talk to your
> Exchange servers (and if I understand it correctly, that might be more than
> one to get to Public Folders, etc). And then SAP. And then Business App A. 
> And the Business App B. And...  And...

Again, but why does it talk to the outside world unsupervised?  Your
organization clearly has a border that separates its internal systems from
external ones. Why not apply those restrictions on *those* borders?

Alex