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RE: Blocking Internet Gaming

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dominic J. Eidson)
Sun Jan 6 23:55:59 2002

Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 22:54:57 -0600 (CST)
From: "Dominic J. Eidson" <sauron@the-infinite.org>
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On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Dominic J. Eidson wrote:

[snip]

> The basic setup is disallow all outbound connections, save ports 20-21,
> 23, 109/110, 80 (with restiction, explanation follows) and 443.

[snip]

Since several people have commented on us not allowing SSH through by
default, I'll re-quote my private reply:

".. if someone's clueful enough to use SSH, they're clueful enough to
request we allow SSH through for them..."

We do allow other outbound connections upon written request.


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Dominic J. Eidson
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