Re: legality of port-mapping

["Gregory A. Carter" <omni () dynmc net>]

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Rob Quinn wrote:

(re)   Ahhh... so where is it that I'm supposed to hang my ``NO TRESPASSING'' sign
(re)  so that you can see it?
(re)  
(re)   I think most of my customers would say the `public' part of the network
(re)  stops right at the point where they start paying out the cash - the upstream
(re)  side of their circuit.
(re)   I'm still looking for the virtual fence-post or front door that I can
(re)  nail my NO TRESPASSING sign to.

On the net these days I would say your no trespassing sign needs to be a
closed port.  If you don't want users opening up a socket to your system,
don't advertise your routes to the net and don't run any services, or
filter out users you don't want to be able to connect to it.

Greg

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