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RE: Synology Disk DS211J
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jones, Barry)
Thu Sep 29 19:15:30 2011
From: "Jones, Barry" <BEJones@semprautilities.com>
To: "'Matthew Palmer'" <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>, "nanog@nanog.org"
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:13:46 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20110929213040.GB3401@mistress.hezmatt.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Yep!=20
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Palmer [mailto:mpalmer@hezmatt.org]=20
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 2:31 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Synology Disk DS211J
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:11:48PM -0700, Jones, Barry wrote:
> A little off topic, but wanted to share... I purchased a home storage=20
> Synology DS1511+. After configuring it on the home net, I did some=20
> captures to look at the protocols, and noticed that the DS1511+ is=20
> making outgoing connections to 59.124.41.242 (www) and 59.124.41.245=20
> (port 81 &
> 89) on a regular basis. These addresses are owned by Synology and=20
> Chungwa Telecom in Taiwan.
And this is why the prudent home admin runs a firewall device he or she can=
trust, and has a "default deny" rule in place even for outgoing connection=
s.
- Matt
