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Re: quietly....


From: Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:53:36 -0600

On 2/4/2011 8:05 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:

True... If you review the NANOG archives you'll find that at least in the case
of the port 25 absurdity, I have noticed and have railed against it.


Yeah, I threw it in as an afterthought. ISP firewalls do exist and not just small isolated incidents. I wish more money had gone into making them much more adaptive, then you could enjoy your tcp/25 and possibly not have a problem unless your traffic patterns drew concerns and caused an adaptive filter to block it (eh? thousands of emails suddenly to a variety of servers? block). Interestingly, adaptive filters are often used for probing scans (and we didn't apply them to tcp/25, why?)


Jack


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