[69524] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Lazy network operators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Wed Apr 14 00:14:55 2004
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 21:09:14 -0700
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "John Curran" <jcurran@istaff.org>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> John Curran wrote:
> If we can fix this by changing default behavior to make such
> machines less useful to hackers, while still allowing anyone
> who wants to originate to do so at will via configuration,
> what is the harm?
Besides architectural purity (which still bears weight) the
problem is that configuration costs money. I have my own SMTP
server at home because I'm not happy with my ISP's smarthost.
That same ISP can't reverse-lookup my static IP to return a PTR
that has my domain name in it, explain me how they will build a
filter that un-filters port 25 for my IP and does not for the
next one.
Michel.
=20
