ISP Linux support

[Walter Dunz]

Me either, and I use a firewall to keep the nasties out!

Brian Kelsay <bkelsay at askpioneer.com> wrote:
> I personally don't even run NetBIOS on my home network.  The only thing
it's
> sort of fast at is printing, but its not really needed.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: C T Miller [mailto:cmiller3 at kc.rr.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 10:48 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: RE: kclug - ISP Linux support
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> RR is bad. Bandwidth kills.
> try watching the logs after this
> "ipchains -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 137:139 -j DENY -l" or
> "iptables -A INPUT -s 0/0 -d 0/0 -i eth0 -p 137:139 -j DENY -l"
> --idea is block and log all activity on 137:139
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> it becomes a passive scanner, I see at least 2-5 IPs a day come through,
> some in other states. netbios loves to broadcast
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> telnet and ftp send passwd in plain text.
> come on use ssh openssh.com and slow down the hackers
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> in short dont think rr, a shared network, is secure
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