Subj : Re: Handy list of TCP ports? To : Geo. From : Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l Date : Sun Mar 25 2001 11:40 am From: "Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l" I was thinking more of the "hacker scan profile" -- trying to scan bunches of machines without break. Not just scanning a single machine. gs "Geo." wrote in message news:3abeae61$1@w3.nls.net... > "Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l" wrote in message > news:3abe929f$1@w3.nls.net... > > I was thinking more of scanning that originates with your subscribers. > > Suppose you dial into the internet from home in order to scan your web > server at work so you can determine if it's safe or not. You scan it and get > no open ports (because your ISP is blocking the outbound scan) so you think > it's safe when in fact it isn't. > > I'm kind of surprised at these suggestions. How many of you would get pissed > off if your ISP were blocking some function you wanted to do over the net? > Most people, myself included, feel that when we pay for an internet > connection, how we use that connection is nobody's business but our own (as > long as we aren't breaking the law). You guys have no idea how many > customers we pick up because their old ISP started blocking some function > (outgoing smtp connections for one example). > > I won't do that, I won't sell an internet connection that doesn't measure up > to the standards I would demand if I were paying for that connection. If I > have a problem with people scanning me then I'll put up a firewall (as I > have) and block it myself. Only when I can't block it, as in the case of a > flood, would I want help from the ISP. (and in that case I would not have a > problem putting up a block to help the customer). > > Geo. > > --- BBBS/NT v4.00 MP * Origin: Barktopia Gating Project http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) .