[60457] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Jezierski - BOFH)
Tue Aug 12 15:03:34 2003
In-Reply-To: <E19me4K-0006Lp-0r@roam.psg.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 14:01:55 -0500
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>,
"McBurnett, Jim" <jmcburnett@msmgmt.com>
From: Mike Jezierski - BOFH <bofh@digitalfarmers.org>
Cc: "Jack Bates" <jbates@brightok.net>,
"Mans Nilsson" <mansaxel@sunet.se>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 11:40 -0700 8/12/03, Randy Bush wrote:
> > As a larger than average end user and what could
>> be called a small ISP, I really can not image
>> legitimate traffic on 135..
>> who in there right mind would pass NB traffic in the wild?
>
>the days of giving intelligence tests to customers is long gone.
>the job of an isp is to deliver packets. maybe your customer
>is foolish. but break their ceo's access and you're their ex-
>isp.
>
>randy
My experience seems to be that as the ISP we're blamed when the
subscribers gets a virus, because after all it's our network that
sent the customer the virus.
-- Mike
