[64525] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISPs' willingness to take action
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Mon Oct 27 10:08:56 2003
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:08:18 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
To: "Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS" <billstewart@att.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5AFA5A2C102DAB4692ABC1E87E0780CA05D5023E@OCCLUST02EVS1.ugd.att.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS wrote:
>
> Brian Bruns asserts that there are lots of home users
> connecting to their office Exchange servers without VPNs,
> and that therefore blocking the Microsoft ports was bad.
> While I agree with his point that you shouldn't do it
> without documenting what you are or are not blocking,
> I'm really surprised to hear the assertion that people are
> leaving unfirewalled Exchange servers out on the net.
> Is this actually common? /shudders...
apparently so... reference long discussions on nanog regarding blocking
welchia/nachi... People even, SHOCKER, use smb shares over the internet
without vpns or firewalls :(
