Is it time to block all Microsoft protocols in the core?

E.B. Dreger eddy+public+spam at noc.everquick.net
Mon Jan 27 08:38:48 UTC 2003


SD> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 03:19:33 -0500 (EST)
SD> From: Sean Donelan


SD> Its not just a Microsoft thing.  SYSLOG opened the network
SD> port by default, and the user has to remember to disable it
SD> for only local logging.

Filtering ASNs and adverts (BGP) at the edge generally is
accepted as a good thing.  The RADB is one's friend.

Protocol/port equivalent, anyone?

(Of course, filtering BGP routes is much easier than filtering
every last packet with forwarding time constraints...)


Eddy
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