[61877] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable & Wireless, Verio and/or Level 3 port blocking?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Mon Sep 8 15:05:38 2003
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:03:19 -0400
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>
To: "William Devine, II" <william@smartguys.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <003401c3763a$de105960$6401a8c0@corp.pgtechinc.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
NTT/Verio is performing no network-wide port blocking
of such services.
You might want to point out to this client that
without a VPN client, one can not be assured of
home-office workers, or traveling people not having issues
with the ports involved.
- jared
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:56:10PM -0500, William Devine, II wrote:
>
> Can anyone from these three carriers tell me if you're doing port blocking
> on the Windows file/print ports (135-139, 445 & 593) ?
> A client of ours (in the US), against our recommendation, still wants to
> connect to their Exchange server in the UK without a VPN. We're not
> blocking their IP#'s from anything but somewhere in between it's getting
> blocked. We use C&W directly and Verio/Level3 through a peer.
>
> Thanks!
> william
>
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