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Re: a record?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Wed Nov 16 01:07:39 2005

Date: 16 Nov 2005 06:07:09 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20051115080306.GA20552@openminds.be>
Cc: frank@openminds.be
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


>> Moving sshd from port 22 to port 137, 138 or 139. Nasty eh?
>
>don't do that! Lots of (access) isps around the world (esp here in
>Europe) block those ports

If you're going to move sshd somewhere else, port 443 is a fine
choice.  Rarely blocked, rarely probed by ssh kiddies.  It's probed
all the time by malicious web spiders, but since you're not a web
server, you don't care.

R's,
John


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