questionable practices (was Re: [H-GEN] Which ADSL provider ?)

[Robert Brockway]

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On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Sandra Milne wrote:

> Tech support told us that ssh is allowed to be open, and every other port
> should be closed. I've never seen them check either. I had a wide open dns
> port for several months and never received an email about it. Ditto for SMTP.

In any case, if you know what address range their probes will come from
(eg, inside Optusnet), you could always setup your firewall to drop all
packets from that range.  Gosh, did I say that :)

Rob

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