On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, surfer@mauigateway.com wrote:
NetBIOS was never meant to be a WAN protocol, so no problem in blocking it.
rule #1: do not be the Internet's Firewall rule #2: see rule #1 a leaf network can make any decisions they want on traffic filtering, large ISP's should probably not do this as there are invariably people out there that will want SNMP/ICMP/NetBIOS/SQL-NameService to work over their WAN link(S). I recall some 'fun' with this issue on: 1) slammer worm (ms has a developers thingy that REQUIRES 1434 to work over the internet) 2) welchia/nachi - how can I ping monitor my remote sites? ymmv.
For example: grc.com/su-techzone1.htm
scott
----- Original Message Follows ----- From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org> To: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu> Subject: zotob - blocking tcp/445 Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:51:43 +0200
I heard from several different big ISP's that to stop the spread of the worm they now block tcp/445. I suppose it works.
Gadi.