management interface accessability (was Re: Worm / UDP1434)

Sun Jan 26 21:23:01 UTC 2003

RT> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:07:41 -0600 (CST)
RT> From: Rob Thomas

RT> This is yet another reason why I tell folks with firewalls
RT> NOT to allow everything from the internal (often mistakenly
RT> labelled "trusted") net to the external nets.

Too true.  However, when a company president gets upset because
his kid couldn't play Quake over the network, ports magically
begin to open...

FWIW, it might be good to clarify the "stateful" remark a bit:
Keeping state on all outbound traffic could cause a problem.
However,

	check-state
	deny udp from any 1434 to any 1434
	allow udp from any 1434 to any keep-state
	deny udp from any to any 1434

works nicely for blocking the worm.

Eddy
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