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

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Sandra Milne <silne at optusnet.com.au> writes:

> 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.

Any reason you had DNS and SMTP open?  Those are two of the less
useful ports I can think of to leave open on a cable network.
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