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Re: [Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary E. Miller)
Thu Feb 20 16:49:20 2003

Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:48:44 -0800 (PST)
From: "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com>
To: Joshua Smith <joshua.ej.smith@usa.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <443HBTVES8752S18.1045776644@uwdvg018.cms.usa.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Yo Joshua!

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Joshua Smith wrote:

> i still get 8K plus hits against my acls per day for udp/1434...(75 in the
> time it took to write this email)

You are probably doing as much damage as good.

udp/1434 is not a reserved port. A lot of what you are blocking is legit
traffic that picked a random port to use for an ad-hoc use.

RGDS
GARY
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