[83472] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Tue Aug 16 06:57:21 2005
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 06:56:32 -0400
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
Cc: "surfer@mauigateway.com" <surfer@resalehost.networksolutions.com>,
Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>, nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0508152126510.3650@parapet.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, surfer@mauigateway.com wrote:
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>>NetBIOS was never meant to be a WAN protocol, so no problem
>>in blocking it.
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>
> rule #1: do not be the Internet's Firewall
> rule #2: see rule #1
>
Surely we realize that this discussion is not concerning the oft
repeated "Internet's Firewall" debate.
Its about containing a potential worm/virus outbreak. Call it a network
wide quarantine.
The damages inflicted by worms/viruses in the past that we have all seen
and are still coping with (C&C reports anyone?) are well known.
This is network self preservation. Otherwise the garbage will eventually
suffocate us all.
Apples and oranges.
