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Re: botted hosts

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Apr 4 19:40:43 2005

To: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Cc: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Apr 2005 19:14:26 EDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 19:40:08 -0400
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On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 19:14:26 EDT, Dean Anderson said:
> On 4 Apr 2005, Paul Vixie wrote:
> > i want weak protocols restricted to LANs or at most campuses or ISPs.  that
> > means UDP/137, UDP/139, and TCP/25 at the moment.  stay tuned, we might be
> > adding more.  oh and as long as you're considering whether to restrict
> > things to your LAN/campus/ISP, i'm ready to see rfc1918 filters deployed...
> 
> Does that include DNS?  That's a pretty weak protocol.

One must wonder if this proposal would get more traction, or less, if we
changed from "weak protocol" to "lame protocol".

Now where's my asbestos skivvies? :)

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