[69527] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lazy network operators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joshua sahala)
Wed Apr 14 01:36:44 2004
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 22:13:39 -0400
From: joshua sahala <jejs@sahala.org>
To: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
Cc: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <p06020405bca1f3fdfaac@[192.168.1.101]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On (13/04/04 15:52), John Curran wrote:
>
> I'm very much suggesting blocking outward to the Internet port 25
> traffic, except from configured mail relays for that end-user site.
> Those hosts which have MSTP malware are stopped cold as a result.
>
so the malware writers start using port 80 through open proxies...they
do already. or they go after the im client ports more. there are ways
to send mail if 25 is blocked to me
/joshua
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