North American Network Operators Group
Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical

Re: Port 445 issues (was: Port 80 Issues)

  • From: Vadim Antonov
  • Date: Mon Mar 10 05:29:22 2003 

I'm just waiting for hakerz to finally figure out that having the port
number a hash of host address will effectively make port-based 
"notch" filtering useless. Usin


On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:
 
> Blocking ports in the core doesn't stop stuff from spreading.  There are
> too many alternate paths in the core for systems to get infected through.
> In reality, backbones dropped 1434 packets as a traffic management practice
> (excessive traffic), not as a security management practice (protecting
> users).