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Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?


From: Rafi Sadowsky <rafi-nanog () meron openu ac il>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 13:26:15 +0300 (IDT)



## On 2002-09-10 10:02 +0300 Petri Helenius typed:

PH> >
PH> If somebody is ignorant enough to implement IP over HTTP, why should
PH> they be accommodated? There are numerous reasons why there are other
PH> port numbers to TCP than 80 and other protocol numbers to IP than 6.

 Why do you think they're ignorant ?
Isn't TCP over HTTP is normally used to attempt bypassing of firewalls ?

 IMHO Firewall/Security admins are ignorant
if they don't take this into account

AFAIK you can tunnel IP over(at least):

 1) HTTP(not just use port 80 for non HTTP traffic)

 2) ICMP ...

 3) DNS queries(needs an external "custom" cooperating DNS)

-- 
        Rafi




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