Port blocking last resort in fight against virus

Wed Aug 13 09:48:03 UTC 2003

* steve at telecomplete.co.uk (Stephen J. Wilcox) [Wed 13 Aug 2003, 10:58 CEST]:
> In your world DoS traffic would be free to roam the networks as it
> pleased without being throttled sensibly at ingress?

How many people are actually following RFC3514?  (In other words, how do
you separate DoS traffic from normal traffic and define sensibly)

> Or the dumb [wannabee] IT guy runs some telnet/ftp/filesharing service
> without passwords and its ok for the whole world to access the private
> system coz its his fault?

Whose fault can it possibly be besides his?  You have to expect others
to be psychic to believe otherwise.

	-- Niels.