Port blocking last resort in fight against virus

Wed Aug 13 16:15:42 UTC 2003

True, but at that time you didn't have illegitimate traffic on port 80,
either.  Future engineering could be worked around this issue.

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Kaufman [mailto:matthew at eeph.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 12:09 PM
To: 'McBurnett, Jim'; nanog at merit.edu
Subject: RE: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus

> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of McBurnett, Jim
>...  I really can not image 
> legitimate traffic on 135..

My problem with this approach is that, in 1985, you could have said "I
really cannot imagine legitimate traffic on port 80".

(On the other hand, you could probably say that today and be mostly right)

Matthew Kaufman
matthew at eeph.com