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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: BLS FastAccess internal tech needed
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > (Your new SMTP port filters put in today in the Atlanta market are a step in > > the right direction, but they are configured incorrectly: They block > > outbound connections to port 25, which is good -- but they are also blocking > > *inbound* connections to a local SMTP receiver, which protects nothing and > > simply annoys those of us who have a clue.) > > What they're *trying* to do is actually quite sensible, and beats > spammers trying to do asymmetric routing / source address spoofing > type stuff > > I guess what they actually should do is filtering inbound connections > FROM port 25 to any port. That's why I said that it is misconfigured. The inbound packet filter has the wrong matching criterion. -- -- Todd Vierling <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
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