[170110] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: misunderstanding scale
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Mon Mar 24 12:02:56 2014
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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 16:02:11 +0000
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: mark.tinka@seacom.mu, nanog@nanog.org
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On 24/03/2014 06:47, Mark Tinka wrote:
> Because, at the very least, a laptop or server can run a
> stateless packet filter to keep out pokes at ports that may
> be running by default, but have no business being queried
> over the network.
once upon a time, they didn't have host firewalls or packet filters, which
was why we ended up with:
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Survival+Time+on+the+Internet/4721
Nick
