[83502] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Wed Aug 17 03:58:45 2005
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:57:57 +0200
In-Reply-To: <4300e431.1b8.3e32.1309548120@mauigateway.com>
(surfer@mauigateway.com's message of "Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:51:29 GMT")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> NetBIOS was never meant to be a WAN protocol, so no problem
> in blocking it.
445/TCP is not NetBIOS! Some people even call the protocol the
"Common Internet File System".