Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445

[Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>]

Daniel Senie wrote:

> One of the dangers is more and more stuff is being shoved over a 
> limited set of ports. There are VPNs being built over SSL and HTTP to 
> help bypass firewall rule restrictions. At some point we end up with 
> another protocol demux layer, and a non-standard one at that if we 
> push more and more restrictive filters out there. This in the long run 
> is going to cause many problems.

Isn't SSL VPN exactly another protocol demux layer, though it might be a 
standard one?

Pete