OT: sympatico blocking tcp port 135

[Robert Brockway]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Keith Mastin wrote:

> I wish that all isp's would block 135:137 though... so many hits on those
> ports.

Although I can sympathise, widescale "carte-blanche" blocking of ports is
considered pretty heavy handed, and with good reason.  People may actually
have a legitmate use of those ports over the 'net (which may not even be
related to SMB/CIFS at all).

To my knowledge the only widescale blocking of specific ports that has
ever been down was just recently when UDP/1434 was blocked on core routers
for a few days to stop the SQL-Slammer worm.

Cheers,
	Rob

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