[60445] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mike harrison)
Tue Aug 12 12:58:29 2003
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:12:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: mike harrison <meuon@highertech.net>
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
Cc: Mans Nilsson <mansaxel@sunet.se>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3F39165A.10809@brightok.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> There is legitimate traffic on 135. All users I've talked to have been
We started blocking 135-139 and 445 a week ago... we got one complaint,
and added an exception for those two ip addresses (one remote/one local).
We're just a small regional ISP, but we've seen little real use
of these ports by our customers across the 'net. This is a good thing.
