[60168] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Blocking port 135?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Weaver)
Fri Aug 1 23:05:18 2003
From: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>
To: 'Jack Bates' <jbates@brightok.net>,
Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 23:25:35 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Im pretty sure the Shavlik products require the RPC ports for people to use
HFNETCHK LE and stuff like that, and a lot of our co-lo customers use that
to keep their win boxes up to date, which I think is great because that's
one less abuse email I have to reply to ;-)
-Drew
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Bates [mailto:jbates@brightok.net]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 9:32 PM
To: Sean Donelan
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Blocking port 135?
Sean Donelan wrote:
> free/cheap software firewalls that
> are easy and effective to use.
And breaks all kinds of nifty things which ISP has to pay for via
helpdesk support.
-Jack
