[27295] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco says attacks are due to operational practices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wayne Bouchard)
Fri Feb 11 00:51:52 2000
From: Wayne Bouchard <web@typo.org>
Message-Id: <200002110549.WAA72792@typo.org>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000210212108.00a33190@lint.cisco.com> from Paul Ferguson at "Feb 10, 2000 09:22:48 pm"
To: ferguson@cisco.com (Paul Ferguson)
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 22:49:01 -0700 (MST)
Cc: chris@dqc.org (Chris Cappuccio), nanog@merit.edu
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> At 06:13 PM 02/10/2000 -0800, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
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> >Filtering incoming our outgoing ports for anybody's network but your own (not
> >your customer's) is wrong. You know specifically what apps you are running.
> >How can you know what your customer is running or what they want to do ?
>
> Excuse me, but can you please tell me what "application" a downstream
> customer might be running which originates packets for traffic with
> source addresses which they are not advertising (or you are advertising
> for them)?
>
> - paul
In earlier days, direct-pc used to do this... Don't know if they
"fixed" it or not.
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Wayne Bouchard [Immagine Your ]
web@typo.org [Company Name Here]
Network Engineer
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