[60607] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Owens)
Thu Aug 14 15:05:02 2003
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0308141023300.14665-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:04:24 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Bill Owens <owens@nysernet.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 10:29 -0400 8/14/03, Sean Donelan wrote:
>John Markoff reports in the New York Times that Microsoft plans to change
>how it ships Windows XP due to the worm. In the future Microsoft will
>ship both business and consumer verisons of Windows XP with the included
>firewall enabled by default.
Not being an XP user I haven't confirmed this personally, but I'm
told that when an XP box with the latest updates/packs/whatever has
IPv6 turned on, the included IPv6 "firewall" is automatically enabled
with all inbound connections blocked. Apparently this change was made
when they started including the p2p kit. I did recently see a case
where an XP machine refused to answer IPv6 pings, and suspect that
this was behind it. . .
Bill.
