[77968] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vonage complains about VoIP-blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Golding)
Tue Feb 15 16:19:11 2005
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:18:01 -0500
From: Daniel Golding <dgolding@burtongroup.com>
To: Eric Gauthier <eric@roxanne.org>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050215184505.GA16073@roxanne.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Why block TFTP at your borders? To keep people from loading new versions of
IOS on your routers? ;)
Not trying to be flippant, but what's the basis for this?
- Dan
On 2/15/05 1:45 PM, "Eric Gauthier" <eric@roxanne.org> wrote:
>
>>> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:53:59AM -0600, Adi Linden wrote:
>>>> How is this any different then blocking port 25 or managing the bandwidth
>>>> certain applications use.
>
> Something else to consider. We block TFTP at our border for security reasons
> and we've found that this prevents Vonage from working. Would this mean that
> LEC's can't block TFTP?
>
> Eric :)
