Re: [Full-Disclosure] Should ISPs be blocking open ports for their customers?

From: Stephen Perciballi (stephen.perciballi_at_ca.mci.com)
Date: 09/09/03

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    To: morning_wood <se_cur_ity@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 09:28:39 -0400 (EDT)

    Seems like a pretty stringent AUP. That would be annoying if you were
    trying to use an IRC server over your WAN for company communications or
    the like.

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    On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, morning_wood wrote:

    > Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Should ISPs be blocking open ports for their
    > customers?
    >
    >
    > >
    > > It's not really common practice for transit type providers to do this.
    > > The networks are typically engineered to forward packets and not filter
    > > them. Hopefully the providers have dedicated staff to handle abuse. In
    > > that case issues should be handled on a case-by-case basis.
    >
    > in my local area comcast is blocking 135 and 445, further I have advised comcast
    > of thinknaw, just dont give it out
    > of blocking inbound 6667 as i feel this would reduce many of the mechanisims
    > using [sd]bot type agents attacking against ircd.
    > since running a IRC server is in contrast to thier ToS.
    >
    > DMCA observances:
    > quote from comcast tv commercial "download your favorite music, and movie
    > trailers online" - - note the use of the phrase "trailers" to note the
    > destinction between them ( legal ) and full movies ( illegal ), but nothing
    > about said music ( of which you can get "trailers" of commercial releases (
    > legal )) as opposed to commercial releases ( illegal ).
    >
    >
    > Donnie Werner
    > http://e2-labs.com
    >
    >
    >

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