[55350] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level3 routing issues?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Mon Jan 27 16:17:43 2003
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:16:00 -0500 (EST)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030127211115.GR29526@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> That's fine for a non-MS view of the world (admittedly, a view I prefer),
> but then you've got to allow TCP 138/139 to all the MS servers in your
> organisation (why couldn't they seperate auth from file sharing from...).
> And then whatever protocols Outlook uses to talk to your
> Exchange servers (and if I understand it correctly, that might be more than
> one to get to Public Folders, etc). And then SAP. And then Business App A.
> And the Business App B. And... And...
Again, but why does it talk to the outside world unsupervised? Your
organization clearly has a border that separates its internal systems from
external ones. Why not apply those restrictions on *those* borders?
Alex
