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Dima Volodin
dvv@egcs.dvv.ru
Tue Feb 8 08:35:00 GMT 2000
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 12:45:53 +0100, you wrote:
>Chip Salzenberg wrote:
>> According to Jamie Lokier:
>> > RR has no reason that I can see for blocking [...] scans of
>> > customers who would like to accept the scans.
>>
>> RR customers don't have static IPs. (They use DHCP.) So to protect
>> some customers from probes, RR must block probes to _all_ customers.
>
>Not necessary. It depends how they implement the firewall.
>
>If one customer complains that someone's trying to ssh to their box, all
>customers must lose the ability to ssh into their own boxes too?
>From what I uderstand, RR blocks smtp (and perhaps other) probes from
ORBS scanners towards the customers network. (RR also blocks all SMB/NMB
traffic on the customers network, but I don't think there are any people
who would find it controversial.)
>-- Jamie
Dima
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