[83474] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Tue Aug 16 08:09:00 2005
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:08:17 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
Cc: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>,
"surfer@mauigateway.com" <surfer@resalehost.networksolutions.com>,
Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>, nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4301C660.4050807@ttec.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Joe Maimon wrote:
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> This is network self preservation. Otherwise the garbage will
> eventually suffocate us all.
It's like cancer initially was treated with drugs and equipment which
did serious damage to the whole body, killing many in the process and
today the methods are much more targeted to the actual bad tissue while
minimizing collateral damage.
Port blocking is like cancer treatment from the 1980's.
Pete
