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Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445

  • From: Petri Helenius
  • Date: Wed Aug 17 11:57:40 2005

Daniel Senie wrote:


One of the dangers is more and more stuff is being shoved over a limited set of ports. There are VPNs being built over SSL and HTTP to help bypass firewall rule restrictions. At some point we end up with another protocol demux layer, and a non-standard one at that if we push more and more restrictive filters out there. This in the long run is going to cause many problems.
Isn't SSL VPN exactly another protocol demux layer, though it might be a standard one?

Pete