RE: Open All Outbound Ports?

["Mark Merchant" <mmerchant () dispatch com>]

At 11:44 PM 11/13/02 -0500, you wrote:
> I never agreed with it, but one
> of their reasons to open this was passive FTP.  Their reason was a lot of
> the sites that were visited used Passive FTP, that randomly uses any port
> above port 1024.

quick reply, hope this hasn't been covered ad naseum...

a solution i have seen used several places is to not allow outbound
ftp ( or other restricted services ) from all ip addresses. create seg-
ments, or "virtual lan's" for your consultants or other groups who re-
quire "privileged" access to the internet.

this is one of the ways that "consultants" often cause more harm
than they are worth. ( just my opinion, your milege may vary. )