Well, actually, this is the router in front of our web servers. The only port I am currently blocking is tcp port 139. - Joel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Furmanek, Greg" To: Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 3:09 PM Subject: RE: port blocks > If you not serving to the internet block all from outside > and block all from inside except ports that are necessary. > > The Wolf > > -> -----Original Message----- > -> From: joel@silverw.com [mailto:joel@silverw.com] > -> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 2:52 PM > -> To: Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > -> Subject: port blocks > -> > -> > -> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > -> > -> > -> ------=_NextPart_000_01C1_01C006C8.4D852090 > -> Content-Type: text/plain; > -> charset="iso-8859-1" > -> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > -> > -> OK, I was trying to get an idea of standard port blocks for > -> security = > -> reasons to put in place on a router. I know that there is > -> no such thing = > -> as a standard set of port blocks, however, there surely must > -> be a few = > -> port blocks that you security gnomes out there keep fresh in > -> your memory = > -> as standard procedure. I will leave the can of Mountain Dew > -> in front of = > -> me unopened as a sacrafice for this arcane knowledge. Thanks. > -> > -> - Joel > -> ------------------------------------------------------------- > -> ------------= > -> --- > -> "For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power > -> of reason, = > -> the > -> story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of > -> ignorance; = > -> he is > -> about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over > -> the final = > -> rock, > -> he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting > -> there for > -> centuries." > -> > -> - Dr. Robert Jastrow > -> Founder of NASA"s Goddard Institute for space studies > -> > -> > -> > -> ------=_NextPart_000_01C1_01C006C8.4D852090 > -> Content-Type: text/html; > -> charset="iso-8859-1" > -> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > -> > -> > -> > -> -> charset=3Diso-8859-1"> > -> > -> > -> > -> > ->

OK, I was trying to get an idea of = > -> standard port=20 > -> blocks for security reasons to put in place on a > -> router. I know = > -> that there=20 > -> is no such thing as a standard set of port blocks, however, > -> there surely = > -> must be=20 > -> a few port blocks that you security gnomes out there > -> keep fresh in = > -> your=20 > -> memory as standard procedure. I will leave the can of > -> Mountain Dew = > -> in=20 > -> front of me unopened as a sacrafice for this arcane knowledge.=20 > -> Thanks.

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- Joel

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