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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus
> > In your world DoS traffic would be free to roam the networks as it pleased > without being throttled sensibly at ingress? > Throttling is a different from blocking. Sensible traffic management does not break applications nor network transparency. You are free to choose when to forward each packet. > Or the dumb [wannabee] IT guy runs some telnet/ftp/filesharing service without > passwords and its ok for the whole world to access the private system coz its > his fault? > This means your application security infrastructure already failed if some filesharing application is running on a machine which also has access to data in the internal disk shares. Pete
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