ISPs' willingness to take action

Mon Oct 27 15:08:18 UTC 2003

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS wrote:

>
> Brian Bruns asserts that there are lots of home users
> connecting to their office Exchange servers without VPNs,
> and that therefore blocking the Microsoft ports was bad.
> While I agree with his point that you shouldn't do it
> without documenting what you are or are not blocking,
> I'm really surprised to hear the assertion that people are
> leaving unfirewalled Exchange servers out on the net.
> Is this actually common?    /shudders...

apparently so... reference long discussions on nanog regarding blocking
welchia/nachi... People even, SHOCKER, use smb shares over the internet
without vpns or firewalls :(