[156079] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The End-To-End Internet (was Re: Blocking MX query)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cutler James R)
Wed Sep 5 18:22:04 2012
From: Cutler James R <james.cutler@consultant.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120905T200555Z@localhost>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 18:21:09 -0400
To: Izaac <izaac@setec.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 5, 2012, at 5:12 PM, Izaac <izaac@setec.org> wrote:
>=20
> Since tcp25 filtering has been so successful, we should deploy
> filters for everything except tcp80 and tcp443 and maaaybe tcp21 --
> but NAT already does so much to enhance the user experience there
> already. And what with ISP customers using their provided DNS and
> mail service exclusively, there's no reason to permit udp53, tcp110,
> tcp143, tcp993, tcp995 either. Really, only evil people use =
anything
> but the web. Any other traffic undoubtedly a bot from which they
> ought to be protected.
Izaac,
You do realize that that the NANOG mailing is archived and some helpful =
person will quote you to their favorite legislator?
James R. Cutler
james.cutler@consultant.com
