On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Joe Maimon wrote:
Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
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
Surely we realize that this discussion is not concerning the oft repeated "Internet's Firewall" debate.
This is network self preservation. Otherwise the garbage will eventually suffocate us all.
and again I point to the above rules. What your network can't handle 'scanning wise' is completely different from what the network I work on can handle. If your network is being jeopardized by some level of scanning they fix that, but that is a local decision. Blindly stating "large isps filter port X" is just disingenuous, there are certainly cases as exceptions, most of which end with the ISP in question saying: "Wow that was a lot more painful than we thought originally:("