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Re: Private port numbers?
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris () UU NET>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 22:44:32 +0000 (GMT)
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
It's not the same thing. RFC 1918 and martian addresses aren't supposed to be present on the internet, but aren't automatically harmful. Having services that are explicitly labeled for internal use be visible to the rest of the world is potentially very harmful.
I think I'm missing something, how would a locally managed firewall (local to the end station) not permit this same scenario? (without the added confusion of private/public ports)
Current thread:
- Private port numbers? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 13)
- Re: Private port numbers? Crist Clark (Aug 13)
- Re: Private port numbers? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 13)
- Re: Private port numbers? Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 13)
- Re: Private port numbers? Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 13)
- Re: Private port numbers? David G. Andersen (Aug 13)
- RE: Private port numbers? Lars Higham (Aug 13)
- Re: Private port numbers? Crist Clark (Aug 14)
- Re: Private port numbers? Mans Nilsson (Aug 14)
- Death of IPv6 Site-Local (was Re: Private port numbers?) Crist Clark (Aug 14)
- Re: Death of IPv6 Site-Local (was Re: Private port numbers?) Jeremy T. Bouse (Aug 14)
- Re: Private port numbers? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 13)
- Re: Private port numbers? Crist Clark (Aug 13)